The Western Jin Dynasty can be said to be the most absurd dynasty in history. It ended the separation of the Three Kingdoms and reunified the world. However, it only lasted for 51 years. All of this is incompatible with the stupidity of the rulers of the Western Jin Dynasty. Incompetent management is inseparable from connections. When Emperor Hui of Jin was in power, many people starved to death on the roadside due to the harsh government and reduced food production.
When the attendants told Emperor Hui of Jin that the people had no food to eat, Emperor Hui of Jin uttered a famous saying: Why not eat minced meat? ?The common people can’t afford to eat, so why don’t they eat meat porridge? The absurdity is evident. The weakness of the central government of Emperor Hui of the Jin Dynasty soon led to warlords from all over the country launching wars to compete for power. Nomads on the border took advantage of the situation and invaded the Western Jin Dynasty. In 316, the Western Jin Dynasty perished.
The following year, the royal family Sima Rui proclaimed himself emperor in Jiankang, which was called the Eastern Jin Dynasty in history. At this time, various ethnic minority regimes in the north were in conflict with each other. The former Qin State established by the Di people successively destroyed the Yan, Liang, and Dai regimes, and unified most of the areas north of China in the Yellow River Basin.
The former Qin Emperor Fu Jian was very proud. He conquered so many countries and expanded his territory so much that his nose suddenly turned up. It turns out that I am so powerful, and I am still far away from unifying China. Not far away? He said that he would lead an army to attack the Eastern Jin Dynasty.
But minister Wang Meng firmly opposed his approach. He believed that although the former Qin state was strong, its foundation was not stable, and the Jin Dynasty had the natural danger of the Yangtze River, which was difficult to conquer. For this Han minister who helped him, Fu Jian was quite trusting and followed his plan. But after seven years of Wang Meng's reign, Fu Jian could no longer sit still and made up his mind to attack Jin.
At this time, Fu Jian was very ambitious, thinking that he could finally become a figure like Qin Shihuang! Although a group of ministers under his command insisted on trying to dissuade him, Fu Jian, who could not stop Wang Meng, would not even listen to their words.
In the third year of Taiyuan (378), Fu Jian sent his son Fu Pi to lead an army of 170,000 to attack Xiangyang. Zhu Xu, the defender of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, defended Xiangyang for a year. In the end, the city was broken and he was captured. Fu Jian took After arriving at Xiangyang, he strengthened his determination to conquer the south.
In the years when Fu Jian was preparing to go south, the Eastern Jin Dynasty regime was not idle. Xie An, a nobleman of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, was responsible for the overall military affairs and deployed defenses in Jiankang. He also ordered his nephew Xie Xuan to lead 50,000 Beifu troops. Guangling set out to meet the Qin troops, and then the Battle of Huainan broke out. Xie Xuan won all four battles and annihilated the enemy.
Fu Jian was furious after the failure of the battle. How could the small southern country be so unreasonable! He immediately planned to lead an army to personally conquer the country. He was tired of fighting for years and thought of simply having a decisive battle to end the battle directly. So in 383, Fu Jian led 600,000 infantry and 270,000 cavalry against a total of more than 800,000 troops, and aggressively attacked the capital of the Jin Dynasty.
On one side, the Eastern Jin Dynasty asked Xie An to lead 80,000 Beifu soldiers with strong combat effectiveness to meet the main force of the Qin army. On the other hand, it asked General Hengchong to lead 100,000 Jingzhou soldiers to attack Qin from the other side to contain its forces.
The Jin army came to Feishui and faced off with the Qin army. The Jin army wanted to cross the river to fight. The generals of the Qin Dynasty believed that it would be safer to prevent the enemy from crossing the Feishui River. But the art of war? You can do it without a teacher. Fu Jian, who was in communication, believed that attacking halfway across the border was the best decision, so he ordered the entire army to retreat to leave space for combat. But what if the Qin army had 800,000? The head cannot be seen and the tail cannot be seen.
The rear troops saw the vanguard retreating and didn't know what was going on. At this time, the fallen general Zhu Xu showed his true nature as a spy and suddenly shouted: "The Qin army has been defeated, everyone runs for their lives!" ?Then the victory escape began. When everyone heard that their own lives were at stake, they fled one after another. Countless people were killed in the stampede.
How can Fu Jian control this? These troops were recruited by stragglers from various ethnic groups. They were defeated like a mountain. The Jin army took advantage of the situation to pursue and killed countless enemies. Therefore, it became the most legendary scene in Chinese history: 80,000 people chased 800,000 people and fought. I also typed out three idioms. Which three are they?
When the soldiers of the Qin army fled, they mistook the sound of the wind and the cries of the white cranes for the Jin army chasing them, and ran even more desperately. Some people mistook the grass and trees blown by the wind for the Jin soldiers, and only hated their parents. A young man with two legs can fly when inserted. This is the origin of "the sound of the wind and the roar of cranes" and "the grass and trees are all soldiers". When Fu Jian saw the Jin soldiers crossing the river, he said disdainfully: It's just these people, I With an army of one million soldiers, all the soldiers throw their riding whips into the river to stop the flow of the river! Therefore, Fu Jian also got an idiom: throw a whip to cut off the flow. Now it has become a joke.