Chapter 084: The Battle of Jin and Wu

At the end of the third year of Tianji (279), Emperor Wu of Jin ordered Sima Ling, general of the Zhenjun army, Wang Hun, general of Andong, Wang Rong, general of Jianwei, Hu Fen, general of Pingnan, Du Pre, general of Zhennan, Wang Jun, general of Longxiang, and Tang Bin, the superintendent of Badong, to attack Wu in six ways.

The following year, the army of Wu was defeated and retreated, Sun Hao followed Liu Chan's example and surrendered to Wang Jun, and Wu officially perished, and three points returned to Jin.

[The Battle of Wu Finally Begins]

In history, after Sun Hao came to power, he did not repair internal affairs, tyrannical and debauchery, resulting in the people's poverty and depletion, centrifugation from top to bottom, and rebellions everywhere; Relying on the natural danger of the Yangtze River, the guard is loose, and the appearance of the fall of the country of Wu has long been obvious.

In the Jin Dynasty, Sima Yan was actively preparing for the destruction of Wu, at that time the Jin Dynasty army was strong, and the navy was weak, so Wang Jun built warships in Yizhou, and controlled tens of thousands of water troops, so that the weakness of the Jin army could be overcome, and the strength was greatly enhanced. After Lu Kang's death, Yanghu, the general of Zhengnan, once asked for the invasion of Wu, pointing out that the conditions for the invasion of Wu were ripe, but unfortunately due to the rebellion of the leaders of the Xianbei tribe in the northwest against the Jin, the rear was unstable, and the matter was delayed.

After the death of Yanghu, Emperor Wu of the Jin Dynasty recommended Yanghu before his death, and succeeded him as the general of Zhengnan and the military governor of Jingzhou. At that time, Yanghu's preparations were quite complete, and Du Pre used the divisive strategy to solve the famous general Zhang Zheng stationed in Xiling on the basis of Yanghu. The conditions for the destruction of Wu have been fully met, so Du Pre has written three times in a row to request the destruction of Wu, Sima Yan finally agreed, and the battle to destroy Wu began.

【Attack of the Six-Way Army】

Historically, Sima Yan adopted the plan drawn up by Yanghu before his death, sent 200,000 troops, and attacked Wu in six ways: 1. Sima Ling, the general of the Zhenjun army and the evil king of Lang, marched from Xiapi (now south of Pixian County, Jiangsu) to Tuzhong (now Chuhe River Valley, Anhui); 2. Andong general Wang Hun marched from Yangzhou (the state is in present-day Shouchun, Anhui) to Jiangxi (referring to the direction of present-day Anhui Hexian) and out of the Hengjiang ferry; 3. Jianwei's general Wang Rong marched from Yuzhou (the state was ruled southeast of present-day Xuchang, Henan) to Wuchang (present-day Ezhou, Hubei); 4. Hu Fen, the general of Pingnan, marched from Jingzhou to Xiakou (now Wuchang, Wuhan City); 5. The general of Zhennan, Du Pre, marched from Xiangyang to Jiangling (now Hubei), and then went south to the south of the Yangtze River and Xiangshui, and reached Beijing and Guangzhou; 6. Longxiang general Wang Jun, general Guangwu, Badong (county governance in present-day Fengjie, Sichuan) supervisor Tang Bin from Bashu Shunjiang east, straight to Jianye. With Taiwei Jia Chong as the governor of the capital, and the champion general Yang Ji as the deputy, he led the Chinese army to garrison Xiangyang and control the armies; The Chinese book ordered Zhang Hua to support the book and plan the grain transportation.

In general, it was to press forward on the whole line, break the Wu army individually, and try to attack Jianye in one fell swoop. The final battle between the two sides was that the Wu army was defeated and retreated, and there was no strength to fight at all.

Sun Hao first asked Prime Minister Zhang Yi to lead Danyang Taishou Shen Ying, the protector Sun Zhen, and the deputy military division Zhuge Liang to lead 30,000 troops to cross the river to meet the battle, so as to prevent the Jin army from crossing the river. Shen Ying thought that he should concentrate his forces on quarrying and waiting for the Jin army to come to a decisive battle, and should not risk crossing the river, while Zhang Yi thought that Wu Guo had already gone to the general situation, and there was no chance to fight without risking a battle, so he led his troops to cross the river, and met Wang Hun's army Zhang Qiao, the commander of Chengyang, with 7,000 soldiers and horses. Zhuge Liang, the deputy military division, believed that Zhang Qiao was using a fake surrender to delay the army, delay time, wait for backup, and we should rush to annihilate the troops. But Zhang Yi advocated letting them go, because the strong enemy was in front of them, and they should not fight because of a small enemy. After encountering the main force of the Jin army, the Wu army was first invincible, and then was flanked by Zhang Qiao's army, which had surrendered pretly, and the whole army was defeated and fled. Zhuge Liang saw that the general trend had gone, and collected hundreds of defeated soldiers and fled back to Jiangnan. Zhang Yi refused to flee and died in a battle with Shen Ying and Sun Zhenli, and nearly 8,000 of Wu's more than 30,000 people were beheaded, and the rest fled.

Yangzhou Don't Drive He Yun thought that he should take advantage of the victory to pursue and enter Jianye in one fell swoop, but the coach Wang Hun thought that he should wait for the arrival of Wang Junjun according to the order.

At that time, the army led by Sima Ling, the evil king of Lang, quickly advanced to Tuzhong after the first month, and ordered Liu Hong, the evil minister of Lang, to lead his troops to the Yangtze River, and confronted Jianye across the river to contain the Wu army; At the same time, he sent Changshi Wang Heng to lead the troops across the Yangtze River and attack Jianye directly. Wang Heng's army made smooth progress, breaking the defenders of Wu along the river one by one, annihilating 50,000 or 60,000 Wu troops, and capturing Wu Governor Cai Ji. And Wang Jun led the army of water and land to go down the river, cross Qutang Gorge and Wu Gorge, and enter the vicinity of Zigui. Wang Jun led the Badong Prison Army and Guangwu General Tang Bin to break through Wu Danyang and capture Wu Danyang Supervisor Sheng Ji. Then he went down the river and entered the Xiling Gorge, where he encountered the iron locks set up by the Wu army and the iron cones hidden in the river. Because Yanghu had captured the spies of Wu before, and learned of the above situation, Wang Jun made dozens of large rafts, each of which was more than 100 steps large, and the raft was tied into a straw man, and he was held by a cane, so that the Shanshui soldiers took the raft first, and the iron cone pierced the raft and was taken by the raft. He also made a torch, more than ten zhang long, dozens of circles, poured sesame oil, put it in front of the ship, and when it encountered an iron lock, he lit a torch, melted and burned the iron lock, so that the passage of the warship was unimpeded. On the third day of the second month, he conquered Xiling and captured General Wu Zhennan's Liuxian, General Zhengnan's Chengzhi, and Yidu's Taishou Yuzhong. On the fifth day of the first month, he conquered the two cities of Jingmen and Yidao, and captured the prison army Lu Yan. On the eighth day of the first month, he conquered Lexiang and captured Lu Jing, the commander of the navy. Pingxi General Shi Hong and others surrendered. On the 18th, Emperor Wu of Jin issued an edict to enter Wang Jun as the general of Pingdong, the false festival, and the governor of the Liang Zhujun.

Wang Jun sent troops from Shu, the soldiers were bloodless and indestructible, and the Wu army in Xiakou and Wuchang dared to resist me. Sun Hao sent the guerrilla general Zhang Xiang to lead the 10,000 troops to resist Wang Jun, and Zhang Xiang saw the banner of the Jin army and surrendered.

Originally, Tao Jun, the general 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. Sun Hao immediately summoned him and asked him about the situation of the navy, and replied: "The ships of Shu are very small. Now give me 20,000 soldiers to fight in a big ship, and it will be enough. So he gathered the crowd, gave Tao Jun a holiday, and set off tomorrow, but everyone had fled that night.

【Sun Hao's surrender】

Wang Hun, Wang Jun and Sima Ling and other armies had approached the north bank of the Yangtze River in Jianye, and Sun Hao was about to be defeated, so he wrote to his uncle He Zhi and left a letter to his ministers, admitting his mistake and having no will to fight. So Situ He Zhi of Wu State, Sun Yan, general of Jianwei, and others handed over the seal letter and Fu Festival, and went to surrender in front of Wang Hun's army.

Seeing that his internal disintegration had been disintegrated, Sun Hao, the lord of Wu, adopted the strategies of Guangluxun Xue Ying, Zhongshu Ling Hu Chong and others, and sent envoys to Wang Hun, Wang Jun, and Sima Ling respectively, asking for submission, 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 gave the seal to Sima Ling. On March 15, when he reached Sanshan, Wang Hun sent an envoy to suspend his march, but Wang Jun ignored it, and on the pretext that the wind was too strong to stop the ship, he pulled up the sails and rushed straight to Jianye.

Sun Hao listened to Hu Chong's advice and imitated Liu Chan's practice: preparing for the gift of the country, a plain car and a white horse, a meat and face tie (with both hands tied behind the back), a sheep with a title, a doctor in a declining suit, and a scholar (putting the coffin on the car), leading the crown prince Sun Jin and other 21 people to Wang Jun's camp gate. After Sun Hao decided to surrender, in order to let the Jin army smoothly receive various places, he sent letters of persuasion to his ministers. Wang Jun accepted Sun Hao's surrender, personally untied him, accepted the treasure, and burned the coffin. and sent someone to send Sun Hao's family to Luoyang, the capital of Jin, and Sun Wu perished.

PS: I've been working overtime lately, and everyone has been waiting for a long time.