Shi Hu, who has been turned over, is not satisfied with others being as cool as him, and finding fault is a must. His long military career fostered a bloodthirsty disposition and a desire to conquer. How can it be just satisfied with the fun in the wine pond and meat forest, Shi Hu wants all countries to come to the dynasty and dominate the world. Although, Hou Zhao was scarred under his governance, and he had already lost such opportunities and abilities.

But who will tell Shi Hu? No one. The war still continues, and let's take a look at some of the major battles that took place during Shi Hu's reign.

[Crusade against Duan Liao]

The crusade against Duan Liao was actually caused by Murong Hao's request. The Duan clan and the Murong clan both belong to the Xianbei clan (as well as the Yuwen clan, the Tuoba clan, etc.), but the relationship between the two sides is not harmonious, it should be said that it is a feud, and there has been a lot of friction as early as the Murong Diao era. Readers can know by referring to the relationship between Duan Yu and Murong Fu in "Tianlong Babu" that Mr. Jin Yong is not untargeted, Duan Yu and Murong Fu are always hostile to each other because of Wang Yuyan or some other reason, and then start fighting. We will talk about this point in detail when we talk about the Xianbei Empire in the future, so let's introduce it here.

In 337, Murong Hao was proclaimed King of Yan and established Qianyan. Subsequently, Murong Hao proclaimed himself a minister to Zhao.

Weird? The interests of the state always prevail over the personal face of the king. Murong Hao is very sober and understands that the means are not important, the purpose is the only one. Murong Hao, who immediately claimed to Hou Zhao after becoming king, had only one purpose: to use the hand of Shi Hu to eliminate Duan Liao and eradicate hidden dangers.

Murong Hao made a bloody investment, called the minister, sent a proton (brother Murong Khan), packed the ticket (promised Shi Hu to defeat Duan Liao with the army of the country), and then begged Hou Zhao to send troops to attack the Xianbei Duan clan.

The Xianbei Duan clan was actually Shi Hu's ally. Twenty-five years ago, the fledgling Shi Hu's first victory was to form an alliance with the Xianbei Duan clan. At that time, Shi Hu was still young, strong-blooded, and very righteous. Since then, although there has been a slight friction between the two sides, this has not affected the good situation of good-neighborliness, friendship, harmony and win-win results between the two countries. Theoretically speaking, Shi Hu should have united Duan Liao to attack Murong Hao. But Shi Hu, who has experienced the vicissitudes of life, is no longer the hairy boy he was back then, the actual interests are higher than a piece of paper, in line with the principle of first come, first served, Shi Hu will definitely unite with the one who is the first to submit to him, as for friendship, it will always be a thing of the past for Shi Hu. Besides, who let Duan Liao not be a minister and not send a proton! It is better for someone to be willing to fight with Shi Hu than to go alone.

Shi Hu hospitably entertained the envoys, repatriated the hostages, and agreed with Murong Hao to send troops next year.

In 337, the first year that Shi Hu changed from the king of Zhao to the king of Zhao (who almost became the emperor), Murong Hao sent envoys to worship, protons, and was willing to be a younger brother, just asking Shi Hu to send troops to teach him a lesson from the Xianbei Duan clan, who often bullied him. Isn't it time for His Majesty to say something? If the eldest brother doesn't show his muscles to the younger brother at the critical moment, he won't be able to mix in the road in the future. Shi Hu, who was particularly face-saving, nodded and agreed after being happy.

If you agree, things will have to be done, which is called the demeanor of a great country.

It was actually Duan Liao who took the lead, maybe he thinks that "the first strike is the strongest, and the second strike suffers"! When he learned that Shi Hu was preparing to attack him, Duan Liao first sent troops to attack Youzhou, and then Zhao Youzhou assassinated Shi Li Meng and lost the enemy, and retired to Yijing. The battle between Shi Hu and Duan Xianbei began.

The lineup was very strong, Shi Hu appointed Tao Leopard (one of Shi Le's eighteen horsemen) as the general of Henghai, Wang Hua was the general of Duliao, and led the 100,000 naval army from Piaoyujin; He also appointed Zhixiong as the general of Long Xiang, Yao Yizhong as the champion general, led 70,000 cavalry as the vanguard, and Shi Hu raised the land and water armies to defeat Duan Liao.

In March 338, the Later Zhao army won a great victory, conquering more than 40 towns, and the local officials of Yuyang, Shanggu, and Daijun of the Duan Liao Department all surrendered, and their left and right Changshi Liu Qun, Lu Chen, Cui Yue and others sealed the treasury to welcome Shihu. Subsequently, the generals Guo Tai and Ma Qiu captured Duan Liao's mother and wife in Miyun Mountain, and beheaded more than 3,000 people. Duan Liao absconded on a single horse, and soon surrendered to Shihu, and his son Duan Qite Zhen surrendered to Later Zhao and offered a famous horse.

Obviously, this was a big victory, and for Hou Zhao, the losses were small and the results were many. Shihu won people (more than 20,000 households), land (the land of Duan Liao), and talents (such as Beiping Taishou Yangyu). In addition to the means Liao, it can be said that everyone is happy. By the way, what about Murong Hao, who wants to fight against Duan Liao with the army of the country? Murong Hao was also very happy, his army did not join forces with Shi Hu's army, Murong Hao, who acted alone, led the army to rob after defeating Duan Liao, cattle, sheep and livestock, the people, as well as beauties and gold and silver, all into his pocket, it can be said that he made a lot of money.

Then, Murong Hao went home.

[Tsubame before the battle]

After cleaning up Duan Liao, he naturally had to clean up Murong Hao, this is politics, there is no doubt about it. What's more, Murong Hao robbed Shi Hu's things, his behavior was shameful, and his conduct was despicable. In May 338, Shi Hu sent troops to attack Murong Hao.

There is nothing to describe in the process, Shi Hu attacked, and Murong Hao defended. The two sides held each other in Dajian City (the former capital of Yan, now Yixian County, Liaoning), and after a long attack (more than ten days), on May 13, 338, Shi Hu retreated.

Then the climax came, taking advantage of the chaos of the retreat of the Later Zhao army, Murong Ke, the son of Murong Hao, led two thousand elite horsemen out of the city in the early morning (the enemy had just woken up), and defeated the Later Zhao army and won more than 30,000 ranks. As for Shi Hu, the record in the history books is only six words: frightened, abandoned the armor and fled.

The first battle of the god of war Murong Ke's life was completed. Now let's make a brief analysis, the God of War can become the God of War for his reasons, and we should learn to appreciate the demeanor of the God of War from concise historical materials.

The weapons were properly chosen: two thousand elite cavalry, special forces of the era.

The timing is accurate: when the army retreats, the army has no fighting spirit; In the early morning, the visibility is just right, which is conducive to cavalry combat (without tripping), and the enemy has just woken up and is most relaxed.

Tactics are appropriate: attack, sudden and unprepared.

Then the story of the second god of war came, Shi Hu, who was "frightened, abandoned his armor and fled", began to count the casualties after returning to China, and then he found that the guerrilla general Shi Min's troops suffered the least losses.

Nope.

Simple, right? It's not easy at all. In the case of the various armies of Later Zhao who lost their armor and suffered heavy casualties, how did Shi Min retreat? There is no record in the history books, and I don't know. I only know that Shi Min later changed his name to Ran Min, and became the emperor, and after he died, his enemies bowed to him and admired him, and he was given the nickname of "King Wu Mourning".

[Ma Qiu is surrendered]

Ma Qiu, a native of Taiyuan, Shanxi, is of the Liang nationality, with an ominous year of birth and a clear date of death, and even the cause of death is clear. As a general, he was able to leave his name and story in an era when the emperor was like a carp crossing the river, which is enough to prove that Ma Qiu is a powerful character. At least, in the battle against Duan Liao, Ma Qiu made a great contribution.

The surrender is the sequel to the attack on Duan Liao, and after Duan Liao presented the surrender table to Shi Hujin, he did not come out of Miyun Mountain. In December 338, Shi Hu sent the eastern generals Ma Qiu and Sima Yangyu (Duan Liao's former ministers, who knew the inside story and could easily speak) to lead an army of 30,000 to Miyun Mountain to surrender. In military affairs, Shi Hu is still very sensitive, and before leaving, he told Ma Qiu: "Surrender is like facing the enemy, and you can't take it lightly!" "Unfortunately, something really went wrong.

Duan Liao repented, on the question of whose thigh to hold, Duan Liao was more inclined to defeat Zhao Qianyan, who had strength and family affection (both Xianbei clan). After Murong Hao got the news, he instantly forgot all the unpleasantness between him and Duan Liao, and personally led the army to greet Duan Liao, and the two sides hit it off, and formulated a plan to eliminate the Hou Zhao army in the fly camp and dogs, and this plan was elaborated in the "Thirty-six Strategies", and its name was "Counting the Plans".

The task was carried out by Murong Ke, an ambush battle, with a force of 7,000 elite cavalry, ambushed troops in Miyun Mountain, and the battlefield was selected in Sanzangkou (now Chengde, Hebei).

Ma Qiu, who didn't know it, waited until Murong Ke's cavalry entered his team to know that it was a plan, and wanted to shout "Zhongji", but before he could shout it, the sound of horses' hooves shaking the ground and mountains drowned out everything, including Ma Qiu's fantasy of victory. In the first round of the battle with Murong Ke, Zhao's army of 30,000 collapsed on all fronts, six or seven out of ten were killed, and Sima Yangyu was captured.

Ma Qiu escaped on foot (riding too blindly), as for his army, Ma Qiu didn't think much about it, he didn't want the BMW under his buttocks, where can he take care of his brothers!

In addition to Ma Qiu's official position and title, Shi Huge will be responsible if he is defeated, even if you are facing an opponent that even I can't beat.

Qianyan became more and more powerful because of Murong Ke.

[Attack on the Jin Kingdom]

I haven't mentioned the Jin Kingdom for a long time, in fact, in that era, the Jin Kingdom, which was often beaten down, was the real suzerain, ruling the group! For example, Qianliang has always been Liangzhou County of the Jin Kingdom, but it has not been contacted for a long time. For example, Qianyan, Murong Hao claimed that the king had to be recognized and canonized by the Jin State to be legal, of course, out of strength and distance, the Eastern Jin Dynasty had to be recognized even if he didn't want to be recognized.

At that time, the Eastern Jin Dynasty was very embarrassed, millions of compatriots were humiliated, the splendid Central Plains was full of Huyi, although humiliated, but the Eastern Jin Dynasty had no way, the Eastern Jin Dynasty celebrities who had eaten too much "five stone scattered" could not beat the Hu people who gnawed the "two-legged sheep" on the battlefield, but the Northern Expedition never stopped.

At that time, there was no Yue Fei, and no one shouted "return my mountains and rivers", but the reconquest of lost territory was the eternal theme of the entire Eastern Jin Dynasty. From the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China (Zu Ti) to the end of the fall of the country (Liu Yu), the scholars and doctors of the Eastern Jin Dynasty never forgot one thing, the Northern Expedition!

Here we want to talk about the Northern Expedition of Yu Liang, the powerful minister of the Eastern Jin Dynasty,

Yu Liang, Ziyuan Gui, Yingchuan Yanling people, Eastern Jin Dynasty celebrities, Mei Rong, good Laga (good at talking about Xuanli), the only reason why he can become a powerful minister in the Eastern Jin Dynasty is that he has a sister who is the queen (later promoted to the queen mother), In 325, Yu Liang began to control the power of the Eastern Jin Dynasty because his sister was promoted to the queen mother, and there have been detailed records and comments on such cases in the history books, and the relatives are in power!

This is a derogatory term, but Yu Liang is also worthy of the name, two years after taking power, Yu Liang became the culprit of the "Su Jun Rebellion". For the Su Jun Rebellion, I will not repeat the details, but only tell you that the turmoil almost overthrew the Eastern Jin Empire, I think, this is enough.

After the death of Tao Kan, an important minister of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, Yu Liang acted as the general of the expedition to the west, and also led the history of the three states of Jiang, Jing and Henan, and supervised the military of the seven states. In those years, northern China was full of smoke, and it was indeed a good time for the Northern Expedition; In those years, the Eastern Jin Dynasty reorganized its armament day and night, and the only way to make a contribution was the Northern Expedition.

But I think that in Yu Liang's heart, the magnificent war and the heroism of the battlefield must be as beautiful as a song and poetry! A glass of wine, a bloody rain and a half pot of tea. Yu Liang will command Ruo Ding.

After several discussions and twists and turns, in August 339, Yu Liang entered Wuchang and prepared for the Northern Expedition.

Shi Hu is not a person waiting to be beaten, so there is the origin of my topic: attacking the Jin Kingdom. Ordered Kui An to be the governor of the capital, and led five generals, Shi Jian, Ran Min, Li Nong, Zhang Raccoon, and Li Su, to lead 50,000 troops to invade the northern borders of Jing and Yangzhou, and sent 20,000 cavalry to attack the city of Yi, which was defended by Mao Bao and Fan Jun, the generals of Yu Liang's troops.

In September, Ran Min defeated the Jin army in Xunan and killed the general Cai Huai; Kui'an and Li Nong captured Cannan; Zhu Bao defeated the Jin army in Baishi and killed Zheng Bao and other five generals. Subsequently, Zhang Raccoon conquered Yicheng, and the Jin army had as many as 6,000 dead in the battle, and the generals Mao Bao and Fan Jun apologized for their crimes.

Later Zhao's entire offensive battle only Kui'an later lost the battle, and the Eastern Jin Dynasty Jingling Taishou Li Yang defeated Kui'an and beheaded more than 5,000 people, but Kui'an looted more than 7,000 households on the way to retreat, which can be regarded as making up for the merits.

Yu Liang's Northern Expedition was crushed in this way, and he had not yet sent troops, and he was nip in the bud by Shi Hu just after he had a plan.

The next year, Yu Liang died of illness in shame.

However, the Northern Expedition of the Eastern Jin Dynasty did not stop because of Yu Liang's death, and more successors carried the banner of the "Northern Expedition", going forward one after another, unyielding, and unrelenting.

[Cool before attacking]

The war with Qianliang began in 347, when Qianliang's new state advocated that Chonghua had just taken office, only sixteen years old, and from appearance to experience, he was a little fresh meat.

Qianliang is actually very weak, but Shi Hu is old, and Hou Zhao is also old, especially after the blind toss of Shi Hu's father and son. It stands to reason that even if Hou Zhao is not good enough to clean up Qianliang, it is a piece of cake, the only good thing is that Qianliang has a Xie Ai, young, inexperienced, but very talented, enough to defeat Hou Zhao's commander Ma Qiu, although Ma Qiu is not old, very experienced, and not a waste.

I won't tell you about the battle here, I'll leave it to the story of Ryo before I write it in detail. I just want to tell you one sentence, after Shi Hu was defeated, he sighed like this: I relied on part of the army to pacify Kyushu, but now I have the strength of Kyushu but I can't pacify Qianliang.

That's all for the battle with the former ryo, it's over.