In the first year of emperor Taikang of the Jin Dynasty (the fourth year of the Eastern Wu Tianji), the Jin general Wang Hun led more than 100,000 troops to march toward Hengjiang (present-day Hexian County, Anhui), sending Chen Shen to lead a division to attack Xunyang (present-day Wuxue, Hubei), and sending the Wu general Li Chun to lead an army to attack the Wu army Yu Gongbu stationed at Gaowangcheng (in present-day Jiangsu). On the fifteenth day of the first month, Li Chun's army broke yu Gong's army and pushed forward to the east of the Hengjiang River, seizing the best position to cross the river. At the same time, Chen Shenjun, who joined the army, captured The Township of Yangse and defeated the Eastern Wu Yamen general Kong Zhong and other troops. At that time, the Wu army was short of food and pay, morale was scattered, and there was no fighting spirit. Seeing that the Jin army was like a broken bamboo and invincible, Wu Liwu's general Chen Dai and the Pingyu general Zhu Ming simply led their troops to surrender their weapons.
In February of the following year, when the Wu lord Sun Hao learned that the Jin general Wang Hun had led a large army south to attack Wu, he ordered the chancellor Zhang Ti to lead The Danyang Taishou Shen Ying, the protector Sun Zhen, and the deputy military division Zhuge Liang (Zhuge Zhizi) to lead 30,000 elite troops to cross the river to resist in order to prevent the Jin army from crossing south. Zhang Ti and others traveled to Niuzhu (牛渚, in present-day Dangtu Quarry, Anhui) to consult with the generals, and Shen Ying analyzed the situation of the Jin army's attack on him, saying:
"The Jin zhi water army has been in Shu for a long time, and now the country is in a big move, and the efforts of thousands of miles will be realized that the people of Yizhou will float down the river." I am a high-class army, there is no guard, the famous generals are dead, the young are in charge, I am afraid of the cities along the river, and I cannot do anything to resist. The water army of Jin will end up here"!
According to this, Shen Ying suggested that the troops should be concentrated in Niuzhu (quarrying) and wait for the main force of the Jin army to come to a decisive battle, if the Jin army can be defeated, it can prevent the Jin army from crossing the river, and also go back to the West of the Yangtze River to recover the lost land. If we cross the river in a big way and confront the main force of the Jin army, if we unfortunately fail, we are bound to go to the end. But Zhang Ti had other ideas. He believes that the decline and decay of the Wu kingdom has long been turbulent, and its demise is imminent, and everyone has already seen it clearly, not today. In this way, when the Jin army is suppressed, the hearts of the people are bound to be afraid, it is difficult for the people to form a city, and it is even more difficult to fight with the whole army. It is better to take advantage of the fact that the main force of the Jin army has not yet arrived, and our army will cross the river to wait for a decisive battle with it, and perhaps there is still hope for victory. Raise an army for a thousand days, and use it for a while. If the soldiers are defeated and killed, they will die for the country, and they will die without regrets. If I can win the battle and the enemy army in the north escapes, our army will be mighty and mighty, and then we will be able to take advantage of the situation and go south, and we will be able to defeat the enemy. If you follow your plan and wait for the enemy to come, I am afraid that our troops will have fled long ago. Therefore, Zhang Ti vetoed Shen Ying's opinion and decided to lead his army across the river to fight a decisive battle with the enemy.
In early March, after Zhang Ti's army crossed the river, at Yanghe (present-day Hexian County, Anhui), he encountered 7,000 vanguard soldiers and horses led by Wang Hun's general Yangcheng lieutenant Zhang Qiao, and the Wu army was superior in numbers and quickly surrounded Zhang Qiao's army. Zhuge Liang, deputy commander of Wu's army, believed that Zhang Qiao was a fraudulent surrender, but it was only a measure to delay the troops by means of false surrender, in order to delay time, waiting for the main reinforcements to open up in a big way before counterattacking our army, and we rushed into the army to suppress it. But Zhang Ti once again rejected this correct proposition. He thought it was better to let Zhang Qiao go, because the big enemy was present, and he could not easily fight because of the small enemy. Therefore, after accepting Zhang Qiao's surrender, the overseers continued to advance, and then collided head-on with Wang Hun's main army of Wu, Sima Sunxuan and Zhou Junbu, and lined up opposite each other. Wu Danyang Taishou Sun Ying first led 5,000 elites to attack the Jin army, and all three charges were repelled by the Jin army, and two generals were folded and had to retreat. When the Jin army took advantage of the chaotic order of the Wu army's retreat, it suddenly came out, and the Wu army was defeated and lost. At this time, the surrendered Zhang Qiaojun did indeed attack from behind the Wu army, and the Wu army was frightened and had no intention of fighting, and fled in defeat. The deputy military division Zhuge Liang saw that the general situation was gone and the defeat was decided, so he had to pack up hundreds of troops and flee back to Jiangnan. Unwilling to flee, he fought with Shen Ying and Sun Zhenli, the protector of Danyang, and died, killing more than 30,000 Wu troops, nearly 8,000 dead, and the rest all broke up and fled, and the Jin army took advantage of the victory and advanced to the bank of the Yangtze River.
He Yun of Jinyang Prefecture suggested to Zhou Jun, the assassin of Yangzhou, that Wu Xiang Zhang Ti led 30,000 Elite Eastern Wu troops to cross the river to resist our army, and was almost completely destroyed by us, and the whole country of Eastern Wu was shocked, and now the general Wang Hun of Longjun had taken Kaichang, taken advantage of the victory, and attacked the city along the way, and was invincible. The state of Wu is already in a state of disintegration, we should quickly cross the Yangtze River, the enemy is not surprised, directly attack the Wu capital Jianye (present-day Nanjing), the army suddenly approached the city, we will be able to force the surrender of Eastern Wu without a fight.
Zhou Jun did not dare to make his own decision, so he reported it to the Andong general Wang Hun. However, Wang Hun was also a little hesitant when he heard this suggestion, believing that Emperor Wu Sima Yan only ordered him to send troops to Jiangbei to resist the Wu army, and if he crossed the Yangtze River with his division, it would be disobedient to the king's orders, and even if he won the battle, it would be difficult to get rewards; but if he failed, he would not only abandon his previous achievements, but also be punished with a felony. Therefore, Wang Hun insisted on following the original plan and the original edict, and waited for the arrival of Wang Mao's water army, and then unified and restrained Wang Mao and other troops to cross the river together. Yangzhou Bei He Yun once again suggested to Wang Hun that the general, as a general, shouldered the heavy responsibility of destroying Wu, and when he saw the opportunity to advance, there was nothing to wait for the reason for the edict. The fighter plane is fleeting, don't you hear that "the king's life will be outside, and the king's life will not be affected"? Wang Hun still refused to accept it and refused to obey.
Another large army led by Sima Xian, the king of Langya, had made rapid progress since the first month of the first month, and had rapidly advanced to Tuzhong, so that Liu Hong, the minister of Langya, led the forward to the Yangtze River, across the river from Jianye, to contain the Wu army; at the same time, he sent the changshi Wang Heng to lead the troops to rush across the Yangtze River and attack Jianye directly. After crossing the river, Wang Hengbu made smooth progress, pulled out the Wu army's outposts along the river one by one, and broke through his river defense army, annihilating 50,000 to 60,000 defenders, killing corpses like mountains, and blood flowing into rivers, which was extremely tragic. In the battle, the Jin army also captured Cai Ji, the governor of Wu Dadu.
After leaving Yizhou, Wang Mao's army went eastward, and after successive victories in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, he sailed downstream and reached Niuzhu (Anhui Quarry) on March 14. When the Jinguo Lou ship army advanced to fifty miles southwest of Jianye, the Wu lord Sun Haocai sent the guerrilla general Zhang Xiang to lead a 10,000 water division to intercept it, but the Wu army was already a bird of fright due to the defeat of the company, and Zhang Xiang's water division was frightened as soon as he saw the banner of the Jin army and fell without a fight.
Wang Mao's warships and armor were already all over the Yangtze River, the flag was hidden in the sun, and thousands of ships were competing for the current, and the momentum was very huge, and they continued to advance.
Tao Jun, the general who had been sent by The Wu lord Sun Hao to Jiaotong (present-day northern Vietnam) to fight against the Rebellion of Guo Ma, was on his way to Wuchang, and upon hearing the news of the Jin army's large-scale attack, he stopped jiaotong and turned around to aid Jianye, and the Wu lord Sun Hao gave him a rune and ordered him to lead 20,000 soldiers and horses to meet the Jin army. Unexpectedly, these 20,000 troops scattered on the eve of the dispatch, and the soldiers fled. Tao Jun, who held the rune in his hand, became the "Light Rod Commander" overnight.
At this time, the various armies led by Wang Hun, Wang Mao, and Sima Xian were already approaching the Wu capital Jianye, and Wu Situ He Wei and the Jianwei general Sun Yan held the seal letter and went to Wang Hun's camp to surrender. Sun Hao, the lord of Wu, was cruel and murderous, and had long lost the hearts of the people. Seeing that his interior had fallen apart and that the six gods had no master, he adopted the tactics of Xue Ying, Zhongshu Ling, Hu Chong, and other ministers, and sent messengers to Wang Hun, Wang Mao, and Sima Xian respectively, requesting permission to surrender, in an attempt to provoke the three Jin commanders to compete with each other for merit, causing infighting in the Jin army and killing each other. Wu first sent the seal and letter to Sima Xian, the king of Langya. At this time, Wang Hao was leading the sailors to march straight down the river, and on March 15, he had reached Sanshan (southwest of Nanjing), Wang Hun sent a letter to him to suspend the march, Wang Hun saw that victory was in sight, ignored Wang Hun's orders, and on the pretext that the wind and waves were in a hurry, the building ship could not dock, pulled up the sails and accelerated forward, and went straight to Jianye. On the same day, Wang Mao commanded the Jin army of 80,000 people on land and water, and the boats were hundreds of miles, and the fish penetrated into Jianye. Sun Hao, the lord of Wu, tied his hands and ordered his men to pull the coffin and go to Wang Mao's military gate to beg for surrender. At this point, the Jin army destroyed the four prefectures and forty-three counties of Eastern Wu with the momentum of destruction and decay, destroyed and surrendered 230,000 People of the Wu Army, and the Eastern Wu regime was truly destroyed. Eastern Wu enjoyed the state of Zuo for fifty-two years, and was the country with the longest existence among the three kingdoms of Wei, Wu and Shu. At this point, the situation of the three kingdoms standing tall, fighting endlessly, and dividing for a long time also came to an end.
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