The Jiaozhi Rebellion began with Lü Xing's rebellion in the sixth year of Yong'an (263) and was not initially quelled until the third year of Jianheng (271), which lasted nearly ten years and was a very serious rebellion within the Wu State.

The pacification of Jiaozhi was a major victory for Sun Hao against the Jin Dynasty and had very important significance, but the Jin Dynasty did not invest much in Jiaozhou at that time, so the Jin Dynasty did not lose much because of this, but Sun Wu later had to subordinate the army in Jiaozhou to prevent accidents.

【Pacifying Cochin】

In the first year of Jianheng (269), Sun Hao once again dispatched two large armies to the south to conquer Jiaoluan, one route was led by the superintendent army Yu Bi (Yu Fan's fourth son) and the Weinan general Xue Yu (Xue Zong's eldest son) to set off from Jingzhou by land, and the first route was led by the overseer Li Miao and the overseer Xu Cun from Jian'an Hailu, and it was expected that the two armies would jointly exterminate the Jin army in Jiaolu after the rendezvous at Hepu. Tao Huang "begged himself as a thief", and Sun Hao took him as the Taishou of Cangwu and let him go to war with the army.

However, the progress of the sea route was not smooth, and Li Miao's troops were unable to go to the designated place because of the impassability of the Jian'an sea road, and finally Li Miao's army killed the guide Feng Fei and led the army back to Jianye the following year. He Ding, the general in the palace, revealed: "Li Miao unjustly killed Feng Fei and led the whole army to return without authorization. So Sun Hao ordered Li Miao and Xu Cun to be all executed and razed the three clans.

Compared to the sea route, the land route is relatively better, but it is only a little better at first. When Yu Yan, Xue Jue, and Tao Huang first arrived, the battle was lost, and Tao Huang's troops retreated to Hepu, losing two of their generals. The boss Xue Huang blamed Tao Huang, saying that he "hated the thief and lost the second marshal, and his responsibility is safe", Tao Huang refuted that "the army is not in harmony, so it leads to defeat", but Xue Huang is still angry and plans to withdraw the army. That night, Tao Huang led hundreds of people to attack Dong Yuan's department, won a great victory, captured thousands of brocades and other large treasures, and returned with a full load. After Xue Jue found out, he bowed to Tao Huang for his previous attitude, and asked Tao Huang to be the assassin and former governor of Jiaozhou.

Later, Tao Huang led his troops through the sea road to Jiaozhi County and attacked Jiuzhen Taishou Dong Yuan. In the siege battle, Tao Huang saw through Dong Yuan's ambush plan, pretended to retreat, lured out Dong Yuan's ambush, and defeated it. In the end, Tao Huang and Xue Jue broke through the Jin army and overcame Jiaozhi. Sun Wu took Tao Huang as the assassin of Jiaozhou, and Xue Jue himself died of illness on the way back.

It is also recorded that Yu Yan led an army to attack Dong Yuanbu and won a victory, Dong Yuan died, and Yang Ji sent Wang Su to succeed him as Jiuzhen Taishou. Xue Jue used Tao Huang's strategy to attack Jiaolu from the sea, Yang Ji sent Mao Jiong and Meng Yue to meet the attack, the two armies fought in Fengxi, the Jin army was defeated, and Mao Jiong "only returned with his body". Yang Ji, Mao Jiong and others led the remnants of the army to retreat to Jiaolu and fortified the city to defend themselves. Tao Huang led his army to surround Jiaolu and cut off the supply. By July, the city had run out of food, and more than half of the people had died of hunger or disease. Soon after, Tao Huang surrendered to Wang Yue, the defender of the city, and captured Jiaolu under the combination of Li Ying and Wai, killing Zhang Deng, Meng Tong, Shao Hui and more than 2,000 defenders, and capturing Jin generals Yang Ji, Mao Jiong, Meng Gan, Jian Neng, Li Song and others.

After hearing the news of the defeat of the Jiaolu army, Wang Su, the general of Jiuzhen, planned to flee back to Nanzhong with Wang Cheng and others of Yamen, but was captured by Wei Pu, the general of Tao Huang's department. Gong Cao Li Zuo and Du Lieutenant Shao Yin led the army to hold Jiuzhen, Tao Huang sent his troops to attack, Li Zuo's uncle Li Huang also accompanied the army, so he persuaded Li Zuo to surrender to Wu, but Li Zuo refused, and later it took more time to pacify Jiuzhen. Soon, Ninan and other counties also surrendered to Wu's army, and Sun Wu successfully recovered Jiaozhou. After Sun Hao pacified the Jiaolu Rebellion, he disposed of three counties and Jiuzhen subjects in Jiaozhou, and opened up new land and more than 30 new counties to maintain the stability of the Jiaozhou region.

【Impact and Evaluation】

The Jiaozhi Rebellion caused by Lü Xing can be said to be the largest rebellion in the history of Sun Wu, which affected half of Jiaozhou, and was also intervened by the Jin Dynasty in the later period, and it took nearly ten years to be put down.

An important reason why the Jiaozhi Rebellion was able to grow earlier was that the Sun Wu court at that time had no time to look south, after the Lü Xing uprising, Sun Wu's west Shu Han was close to being destroyed by the Wei State, Sun Xiu could only focus on the Shu Han side first, in order to try to keep the important allies, but Sun Xiu failed to succeed, the Wei State finally destroyed the Shu Han, and also opened the road to contact Jiaozhou, the disaster is not only that Sun Xiu also died soon, and the Sun Wu court had no time to manage Jiaozhi.

After Sun Hao gained a firm foothold, the Sima family had already let Huo Yi start to meddle in the matter of Jiaozhi, at that time, the Sima family had just destroyed Shu Han, and the power was strong, and it was not something that Sun Hao could offend, so he could only tolerate the rebellion of Jiaozhi in the first few years of power, and acquiesced that the Jin Dynasty had changed three Jiaozhi Taishou.

However, Sima Zhao soon died, and after his death, his eldest son, Sima Yan, focused on usurping the throne and successfully established the Jin dynasty to replace Cao Wei. Sun Hao's attitude towards the Jin Dynasty began to change, and he was determined to fight a wave before the Sima family had completely gained a foothold, so there was a matter of sending Liu Jun and others south to quell the Jiaozhi rebellion in the third year of Baoding (268), but this time the battle ended in complete failure.

The following year, Sun Hao, who was unwilling to fail, sent troops south again to quell the Jiaozhi Rebellion, when Tao Huang, the son of the former Jiaozhou Thorn Shi Taoji, took the initiative to ask Ying, Sun Hao sent him south, compared with other generals, Tao Huang was much more familiar with the environment around Jiaozhou, and with the help of Tao Huang, it took more than two years for the Wu army to finally achieve victory.

But the victory in Jiaozhi did not mean that Sun Wu defeated the Jin Dynasty, first of all, Jiaozhi and other places were originally Sun Wu's territory, which was taken away by the Jin Dynasty, and Sun Wu only recaptured it, and the Jin Dynasty's homeland was not adversely affected. Moreover, at that time, the main force of the Jin Dynasty did not participate in the war of Jiaozhi, and the Sima family mainly let Huo Yi in Nanzhong be in charge of the affairs of Jiaozhou. Huo Yi was the original governor of Shu Han in the south, and his command was only the original old army of Shu Han, so Sun Wu's army defeated only some generals of Shu Han, according to some records, Tao Huang and others were able to pacify Jiaozhi and other places A very important reason is that Huo Yi had died at that time, and he could not send reinforcements to the Jin Dynasty troops in Jiaozhi in time.

After the rebellion in Jiaozhou, Sun Hao also left a considerable number of troops in order to stabilize the environment in the area, and these troops basically failed to participate in the later war between Sun Wu and the Jin Dynasty, which was equivalent to being trapped in Jiaozhou.

Historically, Guangzhou and Jiaozhou were originally one, but after Sun Wu captured Jiaozhou, Jiaozhou was divided into two many times, and later merged into Jiaozhou, but since Sun Xiu divided Jiaozhou, Sun Hao still maintained the situation of Guangzhou and Jiaozhou after quelling the Jiaozhi rebellion, and later the Jin Dynasty destroyed Wu and continued this practice.