Zhao Guoye City, Zhanghe Camp.

Shi Min convened the generals Dong Kuang, Wang Ping and Wei Zheng to discuss the matter.

Shi Min said worriedly: "Three uncles, I just went down to the court. Now that the king's decree has been issued, the king appointed Kui An as the backbone general of the capital, controlled the army, and led five generals, including me, Shi Jian, Li Nong, Zhang Raccoon, and Li Su, with a total of 50,000 soldiers, to invade the northern border of Jingzhou and Yangzhou of the Jin Kingdom, and sent another 20,000 cavalry to attack Yicheng! ”

"Why does the king want to go south?" Dong Kuang said suspiciously.

It is said that Yu Liang and Yu Yuangui, the generals of the Jin Kingdom, had the idea of recovering the homeland of the Central Plains with the Northern Expedition. A year ago, Yu Liang awarded the post of assassin of Yuzhou to the auxiliary general Mao Bao, and asked him to lead 10,000 elite soldiers with Fan Jun, the Taishou of Xiyang, to defend the city together. He also appointed Tao as the general of Nanzhong Lang and Jiang Xiaxiang, and led 5,000 people into the city. Yu Liang's younger brother Yu Yi served as the captain of Nanban and the Taishou of Nanjun, guarding Jiangling. Appointed Wuchang Taishou Chen Huan as an auxiliary general, Liangzhou Assassin History, and entered the Meridian Road. ”

Yu Liang sent a partial division to attack Shu, entered Jiangyang, captured Li Hong, the assassin of Jingzhou in Chenghan, and Huang Zhi, the Taishou of Bajun, and escorted them to Beijing. Yu Liang led an army of 100,000 people, according to Shicheng, as the backup of the Zhulu army! For what Yu Liang did, the king hated it deeply, so he wanted to preemptively send a large army to the south. ”

When Wang Ping heard this, he couldn't help but say with great interest: "Min'er, is the Jin Kingdom really going to the Northern Expedition?" ”

Shi Min shook his head and said, "Probably not." Nowadays, the national situation of my Great Zhao Kingdom is like the sky, and the kingdom of the world is invincible! And the Jin country is in a corner of peace, the royal industry is difficult to prosper, they have just put down the rebellion, how to free up their hands to go to the Northern Expedition at this time? ”

"But I've heard that there are many elite soldiers in the Southern Jin Dynasty!"

Shi Min smiled bitterly and said, "Third Uncle, fighting a war is not just about relying on elite soldiers and strong generals. Although an army with elite soldiers and strong generals can win one or even several battles, it is impossible to be undefeated all the time! This is a national war, not something that can be reversed by one or two battles. ”

When Dong Kuang heard this, he couldn't help but bow his head slightly and said, "Not bad." The Northern Expedition of Zu Ti was huge, and the Han people in the Central Plains were all obedient, almost forcing Shi Le to escape from the Central Plains! At that time, the Jin army once recovered a large area of city land south of the Yellow River, but unfortunately the success was lost, and the Jin family had no intention and no ability to go on the Northern Expedition. ”

"It's a pity that Zu Ti died." Shi Min nodded and said, "But his failure is still justified." One is that the Jin family is unable to go on the Northern Expedition, and the other is that the ancestors are alone in the depths, too eager for quick success, and this foundation is not solid, so they try to challenge the powerful enemy, how to make it? ”

Dong Kuang immediately got up and said, "Min'er, since the king has ordered our Han army to march south, I will go and gather soldiers and horses." ”

"Hmm."

When Wang Ping and Wei Zheng left one after another, Shi Min stayed alone in the main tent, silent. For a long time, he sighed faintly.

The Jin dynasty in the south repeatedly went on expeditions to the north, but they all failed, and there is the most fundamental reason.

There were three great and influential Northern Expeditions in history.

One is Zu Ti's impassioned Northern Expedition, one is Huan Wen's many efforts to recover the Central Plains, and the other is Liu Yu's incomparable tiger and wolf army!

Let's talk about Zu Ti first.

The Northern Expedition, in which Zu Ti was able to achieve certain results, was related to the international relations of the division of the north at that time.

The confrontation between the two Zhao states created favorable conditions for Zu Ti, and even after Zu Ti entered the Central Plains, he eased bilateral relations with Zhao Wang Shile for a time.

Compared with the Yuanjia Northern Expedition of Liu Song of the Southern Dynasty later, in the face of the Northern Wei Dynasty, a unified Central Plains power in the north, it was a situation of confrontation between the northern and southern powers, at least from the level of opponent strength, which was much more difficult than Zu Ti.

In addition, Zu Ti was able to achieve such great results, because of Zu Ti's excellent military ability and effective Huairou strategy.

In order to gain a firm foothold in the newly conquered Central Plains, Zu Ti successively attracted small armed forces from all over the Central Plains, which were similar to the local big landlords and big bourgeoisie, and had a certain amount of financial resources and troops.

Zu Ti's outstanding personal ability was reflected during the "Rebellion of the Eight Kings".

Zu Ti is studious and stoic, he and Liu Kun are close friends, and in their youth, the two formed a bond with Liu Guanzhang. At that time, Emperor Wu of the Jin Dynasty was still alive, but they had already seen that the world was about to be in chaos!

History: 逖, Kun and heroic, every word of the world, or midnight sit-ups, said: "If the four seas are boiling, heroes and heroes, I and the foot should avoid the Central Plains ear." ”

This is the origin of "Wenji Dancing".

The reason for the failure of the Northern Expedition was the lack of support from the imperial court, and in fact it was unable to support it.

Speaking of the reasons for the failure of Zu Ti's Northern Expedition, I have to mention the character of Sima Rui, Emperor of the Jin Yuan Dynasty.

In the process of Zu Ti's successive victories in the Northern Expedition, Zu Ti was suspected by Sima Rui that he would sit big, and Wang Dun, who was worried that "the king and the horse, share the world", gradually threatened the imperial court, and finally died of depression.

The love-hate entanglement between Wang Dun and the imperial court does not need to be repeated.

However, it is worth mentioning that it is the internal friction of such families and the imperial court that is also an important reason why it is difficult for the Eastern Jin Dynasty to seek greater development, so it can only choose compromise and compromise and favor Jiangdong.

Then came Huan Wen.

The Huan Wen political power, which successfully eradicated the Cheng Han regime, was unprecedentedly high, which was also the beginning of the rise of the Huan family in the Eastern Jin Dynasty.

In the tenth year of Yonghe (354), Huan Wen, who had accumulated enough political and military power, began the first Northern Expedition, and entered Guanzhong from Xiangyang.

History: Holding cow wine to welcome the eighteenth or nineteenth of the passers-by, the old man wept and said: "I don't want to see the officers and soldiers again today!" ”

It can be seen that the people of Guanzhong, who are under foreign rule, also care about the fate of Wang Shi Beiding in the Central Plains, and look forward to it. But there was a disagreement, because of the shortage of grain and grass, Huan Wen had to withdraw from Guanzhong.

At this time, there was a small episode, Huan Wen and Wang Meng, a celebrity who was in seclusion at the time, hit it off at first sight. Unfortunately, Wang Meng was reluctant to go south with the army, and Huan Wen did not realize it:

What I lost was a genius in the world like Zhang Liang and Zhuge Liang!

In the third Northern Expedition, Huan Wen faced Murong Chui of Houyan. Murong Chui is a fierce rival of Huan Wen, as well as a fierce rival of Tuoba Jue of Wei and Fu Jian of Qin.

Murong Chui himself was extremely good at using soldiers, and even in his seventies, he was able to defeat the Wei State Tuoba Jue.

In the novel "Tianlong Babu", he is the ancestor of Murong Fu, and Murong Fu's unswerving desire to "recover the Great Yan" refers to the multiple Yan kingdoms established by the Murong clan during this period.

Finally, Liu Yu.

The army led by Liu Yu was a well-deserved division of tigers and wolves in the Wei and Jin dynasties, and he successively pacified the disturbances of Sun En, Huan Xuan, Lu Xun and Liu Yi internally, and stabilized the country.

Whenever the emperor thought he could make a difference, he was immediately beaten back to his original form by the big guy.

And Liu Yu completely solved this problem!

Externally, he successively eradicated, Murong Chao of Yan State, Yao Hong of Qin State, and Shu State of Zong, and subdued the Qiu Chi State of Hanzhong.

This is the unprecedented achievement of the Northern Expedition, and only the later Huangjue Temple heavy eight small monks can stand out.

Liu Yu is a Xiaoqiang who can be indomitable in the upheaval of fate, and a veritable third god of war in ancient and modern times!

"Swallowing thousands of miles like a tiger", this is the evaluation of Liu Yu's Northern Expedition by the Northern Song Dynasty poet Xin Qiji.

From this point of view, if the economic strength of the south can be concentrated, it will have enough strength to recover the Central Plains.

At this time, Luoyang has fallen for more than a hundred years, and I don't know what kind of mood the Jin army was in when it entered the city.

However, Liu Yu still failed to complete the complete Northern Expedition, and the reason for returning to the division halfway was related to the political struggle of the imperial court, when his subordinate Liu Mu died of illness, Liu Yu was worried that his own power in the imperial court would be shaken, so he hurriedly took the division.

In the final analysis, the reason for the failure of the Eastern Jin Dynasty's many Northern Expeditions was due to civil strife!

In the Jiangnan region ruled by the Eastern Jin Dynasty, after the northern scholars followed Sima Rui, the king of Langya, to "cross to the south in clothes", for the local scholars in the south, it was a bit of a "dove occupying the magpie's nest".

Because the rule of the Western Jin Dynasty may have been short-lived, there was a lack of strong ideological domination in the Jiangnan region.

And the northern clans who have just left their homeland must occupy the economy of Jiangnan if they want to recover, a piece of cake, a big palm, you cut a piece, I have one less.

In fact, Shi Min has always felt that there is no difference between the battle for wealth and the battle for land, and the cruelty of the former is no less than that of the latter.

In addition to economic disputes, the resistance of the southern scholars to the northerners also came from the background of the times when the southern clans were suppressed by the imperial court after the Eastern Wu was annexed by the Jin Dynasty.

At that time, those who were officials in the imperial court, especially high-ranking officials, almost did not have members of the southern scholars!

Several major surnames in the south: Zhou, Shen, and Wu County, with the four surnames Zhu, Zhang, Gu, and Lu. In the Wu Kingdom during the Three Kingdoms period, there were many high-ranking surnames in several major surnames.

For example, Lu Xun, who also served as prime minister after the famous general of Eastern Wu, Gu Yong, prime minister, Zhu Huan, Zhang Wen, etc.

Due to the decline of imperial power, civil strife caused internal strife, and the Northern Expedition was even more difficult.

The Zuyue Rebellion, the Wang Dun Rebellion, the Su Jun Rebellion, the Huan Xuan Rebellion and even the Emperor Huan Chu were all wars caused by the separatist forces of the Eastern Jin Dynasty.

However, the military strength of the Eastern Jin Dynasty was still very strong.

The later Jin Dynasty did have the strength to confront the great powers of the Central Plains and had the confidence to subdue the Central Plains!

Before the Battle of Weishui, Fu Jian of the Qin State had just surrendered to Qianliang, this eloquent king, insisted on not killing several monarchs of the dead country, and tried to use it for his own use, such as the later Megatron Wei Tuoba Jue and Yan Murong Chui were all defeated under the Emperor Fu Jian.

This is quite the bearing of the Han nation!

For example, Cao Pi on behalf of Han, Sima Zhao subjugated Liu Chan, Sima Yan subjugated Sun Hao, and Sima Yan subjugated Wei on behalf of the monarch of the country.

In the face of nearly one million Qin troops, the Jin State still had enough strength to resist and even completely defeat the Qin army.

It can be seen that the southern scholars and the northern court are united, and they have enough strength to defeat the foreign tribes in the north.

The reason why the Northern Expedition was not supported by the southern nobles was that they did not have any interest in the so-called recovery of their homeland, let alone bear the burden of soldiers, horses, food and grass.

All in all, the current Jin family is not sure enough, and it is not strong enough to support the Northern Expedition of the army!