It is not only Zu Ti who smells the chicken and dances, but also Liu Kun. He was the last remaining enemy of Shiler's northern run, and the most formidable.

Liu Kun, whose name is Yueshi, was born in Weichang, Zhongshan (now Wuji County, Hebei), and after Liu Sheng, King Jing of Zhongshan. King Jing of Zhongshan also has a famous descendant, Liu Bei. If what Liu Bei said is true, then the two have the same root and origin. It's really remarkable, Liu Bang's descendants, even after the fall of the Han Dynasty, are still very promising. Zhu Yuanzhang's descendants, when they were in the Republic of China, were pig killers, and they once went to the government of the Republic of China to ask for relief.

Liu Kun was one of the "24 Friends of the Golden Valley", a well-known social group hosted by Jia Nanfeng's nephew Jia Mi, whose members were all composed of wealthy nobles and had an extremely limited number of seats (24 people). Compared with the "Haitian Feast" in later generations, the club that Liu Kun participated in is still extremely elegant, there is no real money transaction, no peripheral women, and some, just poetry and harmony, which is the dissolute and uninhibited attitude of young people. In other words, it was the product of rich people who had nothing to do, but that era, compared to today, was so different.

The "Rebellion of the Eight Kings" changed the trajectory of Liu Kun's life, and in that turmoil, Liu Kun was trained by the son of a wealthy aristocratic family to become a general who guarded the town. In September 306, Liu Kun was appointed as the assassin of Bingzhou.

It's a big official, but it's not a good job. At that time, Liu Yuan, a Hun man, had been making trouble in the territory of Bingzhou for two years, recruiting troops, occupying land and claiming to be king, and also attacking everywhere. Bingzhou has actually escaped the control of the imperial court, and can be regarded as behind enemy lines. Liu Kun's task is to settle it and recover the annexed state.

Tough and great task!

Liu Kun embarked on the journey to the post with the tragic feelings of "the strong man is gone", the enemy is tens of thousands of powerful and fierce Hun iron cavalry, and the army brought by Liu Kun is only 1,000 people, including the accompanying men. In the years that followed, Liu Kun had no reinforcements, no supplies, no military pay, and he was alone and persistent. It can be said that Liu Kun's failure was foreshadowed at the beginning of his appointment. The general trend is the same, and Liu Kun, who is full of strategy, has no choice.

After several rounds, Liu Kun arrived in Jinyang in the spring of 307 and began his journey of resistance against Japan.

There were no soldiers, Liu Kun recruited them himself; Without support, Liu Kun united with the ethnic minorities around him, knowing that there was great righteousness and great benefits, and jointly crusaded against the enemy; Without supplies, Liu Kun used soldiers for the people, and fully carried forward the spirit of "doing it yourself".

At that time, Jinyang had been war-torn for a long time and had become an empty city. Under the successive military disasters, social production was seriously damaged and a large number of people died, which not only limited the recovery of production and economic growth, but also limited Liu Kun's military resources. What Liu Kun can do is really limited.

But he did a great job!

In an environment surrounded by strong enemies on the left and right, Liu Kun pacified the displaced people, developed production, and strengthened defenses, so that Jinyang was revived, and based on this, Liu Kun was able to hold on and become one of the few remaining resistance forces in the Central Plains of the Western Jin Dynasty. One of the big reasons why Liu Yuan moved the capital to Puban was because of Liu Kun's continuous attacks on the original capital of the Xiongnu and Han Kingdoms. On the side of the couch, with the tiger beside him, how can he sleep peacefully? I had to change places to make the bed.

Among the many generals in the last years of the Western Jin Dynasty, only two people were enough to match Shi Le, one was named Gou Xi, who had already been explained, and the other was Liu Kun.

Yuan Haowen of the Jin Dynasty once wrote such a poem to evaluate him: Cao Liu Zao is a tiger and a tiger, and there are no horns in the four seas It is a pity that Liu Yueshi of the state is not taught to build an anzhong.

Of course, in the north, Liu Kun also has a comrade-in-arms named Wang Jun. Both Jin ministers, Liu Kun and Wang Jun have common enemies, and they can be said to be dependent on each other, but the relationship between the two is not friendly. Once, because of the problem of territory, Wang Jun specially withdrew the army that attacked Shile to attack Liu Kun, which made Liu Kun quite passive. Can you still count on Wang Jun's assistance? Of course not. Just being able to share the enemy's offensive forces at a critical time is already a great help.

Later, in 314, even such a only comrade-in-arms was eliminated by Shi Le, and Liu Kun became a loner.

The battle of one person is particularly difficult, and in the difficult years, even one small mistake can cause the whole situation to collapse. And Liu Kun persevered for ten years under such circumstances. There are many twists and turns, and after several hardships, we have no end to say, and only tell two stories of Liu Kun and Shi Le.

It was the last moment of the decisive battle between Liu Kun and Shile, in 316, Shile attacked and annexed the state, Liu Kun failed to meet the battle, Jinyang was lost, Liu Kun who was trapped in the lonely city was besieged by tens of thousands of Hun cavalry of Shile, the situation was very critical, there was no food and grass inside and no rescue soldiers outside, and the Hun cavalry covering the sky and the sun was terrifying.

In this extremely critical situation, a Hu Ji band was successfully formed under the auspices of Liu Kun, not for Liu Kun to relieve boredom and amusement, but for fighting, a battle with music. Their weapon was the favorite musical instrument of the Huns: the Hu Ji.

The time of the action was at night, the night was very clear, the swords of the Hun cavalry reflected a gloomy white in the moonlight, the general attack was about to begin, both sides were surprisingly quiet, that was the calm before the big war, once the action was made, it was a violent storm, a landslide and a crack. At this moment, Liu Kun's military camp came out of the Huns' song "Hu Ji Five Alleys".

The sad and poignant music made the Hun soldiers feel commotionous, and the army had no fighting spirit, and the trick of "embattled" worked again. The swords raised by the Hun cavalry were all put down, and they were reminded of their nostalgia for their hometown by the song after a long march, and the sound of whimpering sounded in the Hun army. Shile withdrew his troops, and the siege was relieved.

This is a historical fact, and it is true. Who says a song has to be a glamour sound that corrupts the mind? "A song of Hu Ji, 100,000 iron horses return. I don't understand his daily disaster, but he is shocked by future generations. - Zhou Baitao", here, I regret Liu Kun's situation and sing praises for Liu Kun's legend.

As an excellent commander, Shi Le would not give up such an excellent opportunity to eliminate Liu Kun. The reason for the withdrawal of the army, I personally think, is that Shi Le owes Liu Kun a favor, a great favor that must be repaid. Let Liu Kun have a way to live, and from now on, he will no longer owe each other.

Liu Kun caught Shi Le's mother, it was in 311, there was no coercion and temptation, let alone a stick. On the contrary, after some preferential treatment, Liu Kun returned Shi Le's mother to Shi Le, along with Shi Le's nephew named Shi Hu.

Of course, it was not sent back for nothing and pulled down, but incidentally, Shi Le was given a letter of persuasion. Knowing it with affection, moving it with reason, from the righteousness of the country and the nation, down to the private dirty little Jiujiu, Liu Kun has mentioned that there is only one purpose, Shi Le's submission to the imperial court.

Scheller's reply reads: "...... The way to work is not known to the corrupt. When you are in this dynasty, I am self-defeating, and it is difficult to be effective......"

rejected Liu Kun's persuasion, but the favor of returning his mother was still there. As a result, Shi Le also took advantage of the situation to achieve a legend of Liu Kun.

In December 316, Shi Le drove out Liu Kun, the Xiongnu and Han completely occupied the state, and the Jin Dynasty had no more resistance in the Central Plains.

Liu Kun fled to the Xianbei section of Youzhou and united with the Xianbei section to continue to resist the Xiongnu and Han states.

Two years later, Xianbei Duan Pi Bang killed Liu Kun.

Before he died, Liu Kun wrote a desperate poem to express his grief and indignation that his ambition had not been rewarded. It is attached below:

"Farewell to Lu Chen"

There is a hanging bi in the hand, which is a Jingshan ball.

But he is too public, and it used to be Weibinsuo.

Deng Sheng was grateful, and came thousands of miles to ask for each other.

Bai Dengxing is rebellious, and Hongmen Lai Liuhou.

Heavy ears rely on the five sages, and the little white shoots the hook.

The second uncle of Nenglong, ask the party and the enemy!

In the middle of the night, I sighed on my pillow and wanted to swim with a few children.

I have been in decline for a long time, why don't I dream of Zhou?

Who is the cloud Shengda Festival, knowing fate is worry-free.

Xuanni was sad and won Lin, and the west hunted Kongqiu.

Before the work was built, the sunset flowed in the west.

When the time is not with me, go like a cloud.

The wind is strong, and the autumn is falling.

The narrow road sings the canopy, and the horror destroys the double.

What does it mean to refine the rigidity and turn it into a finger twisting softness.

"What does it mean to make steel and turn it into a finger twister" is not only a regret of the hopelessness of serving the country, but also the helplessness of the hero's end.

Liu Kun's struggle against foreign invasion has distinctive characteristics of national warfare. His poems are full of patriotic enthusiasm, and they also embody the lofty ideal of an intellectual in troubled times who can help the world at the same time, serve the country and the people, and make meritorious contributions. Although he has not won a big battle, his fighting spirit of repeated defeats and tears is worthy of our praise.

Liu Kun's prestige increased day by day with the deepening of his anti-enemy struggle, and the Jin royal family continued to add him to the rank of knight, his life road was bumpy and difficult, but his career was smooth sailing, so his political career was full of a contradiction between what he wanted and what he obtained, which was intertwined with the sad mood of the hero's end in his heart, which smeared his life with a lingering tragic color.

Literati have literati endings, and we end Liu Kun's story with Lu You's poems, which has a deep meaning, you and I know it.

"Night Return"

Buying a drunk village field returns in the middle of the night, and the moon sets on the west mountain.

After Liu Kun's death, there was no stranger, and he listened to the barren chicken with tears in his eyes.