Sissai Mountain nostalgia
Liu Yuxi
Wang Maolou's ship went down to Yizhou, and the King of Jinling's qi was eclipsed.
Chihiro's iron lock sinks to the bottom of the river, and a piece of stone descends out of it.
The past has been hurt several times, and Yamagata is still cold.
This is the day of the four seas as the home, so the fortress Xiao Xiao Lu Di autumn.
The poem was written in the fourth year (824) of Emperor Muzong of Tang's (Li Heng) Changqing, when Liu Yuxi was transferred from Chuzhou to Hezhou, and was written during the journey through Xisai Mountain.
Ancient Wuchang, in present-day Ezhou, Hubei Province, leaning over the Yangtze River, resembling a guansai, the situation was precarious, the Three Kingdoms period was a military fortress in western Eastern Wu, and famous military generals of the Three Kingdoms and two Jin Dynasties, such as Sun Ce, Zhou Yu, Huan Xuan, Wang Mao and Liu Yu, all showed their skills here.
At that time, because there were many monuments and past events that poets could hang on not long distances from the dynasty, Liu Yuxi, who passed by the border of Ezhou, quickly made a decision within the time of drinking a glass of wine: singing the deeds of "The Rise and Fall of Jin Wu". Because the Western Jin Dynasty destroyed Wu, it was a righteous act to unify the world and end the situation of division for more than 260 years, which was of great significance.
Wang Mao (王濬), courtesy name Shizhi (字士治), was a native of Hu County, Hongnong County (present-day southwest of Lingbao, Henan), and a famous military figure of the Western Jin Dynasty.
In the early years of the Western Jin Dynasty, the state of Wu was in a dangerous and dangerous place in the river, and with an iron lock to cross it, and also made an iron cone long zhangyu, secretly placed in the middle of the river, with a reverse distance ship, equivalent to a sea fortress, especially the last emperor of Eastern Wu, Sun Hao, who thought that he could sit back and relax, at that time, some knowledgeable generals of the State of Wu such as Wu Yan also reminded Sun Hao to make defenses in military towns such as Wuchang (Ezhou), and the famous general Lu Kang also praised and agreed, but Sun Hao, who was bent on pursuing alchemy, did not adopt it, and he felt that the northerners were not accustomed to water warfare. I haven't seen them call in so many years.
However, the Jin general Wang Mao took tit-for-tat measures, and had long begun to train troops to build a city in Jingzhou, and re-activated the research and development of the iron cable chain warship in the Battle of Cao Cao's Chibi, and this action was implemented for seven years, and sure enough, the emperor did not live up to his painstaking heart, Wang Mao created the most advanced building ship at that time, which was rumored to be able to carry two thousand people, like a small castle.
Finally, in order to boost the military spirit of the Western Jin soldiers who were not accustomed to water warfare, they also drew graffiti of various monsters on the bow of the ship to scare the river gods, so that there was a nursery rhyme in the territory of Wu before they fought: "A Tong Fu A Tong, the sword floats across the river, not afraid of the beasts on the shore, but afraid of the dragon in the water." ”
In the first month of the first year of Taikang (280 AD), Wang Mao, who was already seventy-three years old, was appointed as the general of Long Jun, and led the order to cut Wu "as a raft for dozens, also more than a hundred steps, tied to grass for people, armoured with a staff, so that the good water people take the raft first, the raft meets the iron cone, and the cone goes away." It is also made of torches, more than ten meters long, dozens of large circumferences, poured with sesame oil, in front of the ship. When locked, burn it. The molten liquid was cut off, so the boat was unhindered.
For the State of Wu, the best thing is to hold Xiling, Jiangling, Xiakou, Wuchang (Ezhou) around, to ensure that the Yangtze River is not controlled by the enemy, Wang Mao's unit is the key to cracking the Wu army's control of the Yangtze River, if Wang Mao's water army can not be inserted into the depths of the Yangtze River, then the risk of the Jin Army fighting across the river can be great.
Taking a step back, wu guo could not defend Jiangling and Xiling, so it should also stick to Xiakou and Wuchang (Ezhou), which was in this position in the past years to counterattack Cao Cao, and later the Southern Song Dynasty relied on the famous general Gundam to defend Ezhou (Wuchang region), barely giving the Southern Song Dynasty a chance to survive. Holding these two places would at least allow Wang Mao's water army and the rest of the army not to easily break into the depths of the State of Wu, which would only allow the State of Wu to survive for a few more years, and once the Yangtze River upstream of Jingzhou was lost, Jingnan and Jiaozhou would fall into the hands of the Jin State. Wang Mao's overwhelming march made Wu Guo have no chance to breathe, and once Wang Mao's water army reached Jianye, the control of the Yangtze River Natural Danger had long been taken away.
Therefore, before setting out, Wang Mao appointed Li Yi and He Pan as members of the army, and the army was indestructible since the departure of Chengdu, and the soldiers were not bloody, and easily cracked the iron lock of the Wu state. It turned out that Lu Xun, Shi Ji, and Lu Kang of the State of Wu all attached great importance to the defense of Xiling in Jingzhou, which was the pass of the State of Wu to guard the Yangtze River, and did not let down his guard until Zhang Zheng, the last famous general of the State of Wu, did not relax his guard here.
However, Zhang Zheng had been plotted by Du Pre to let Sun Hao transfer away, so Wu Guo's defenses against Xiling were quite weak. Du Pre-led troops besieged Jiangling but did not attack, this city is notoriously difficult to fight, in the past years Zhou Yu and Liu Bei besieged Cao Tianren for a year, and Cao Zhen and Xiahou Shang also surrounded and fought Zhu Ran for a year. At this time, the defender of Jiangling would be the general Wu Yan of the Che Riding, such a high position was somewhat capable, and the clever Du Pre naturally did not intend to attack Jiangling, and chose to divide his troops across the Yangtze River to attack the south of Jingzhou, and Sun Xin, the governor of Lexiang, wrote to Wu Yan in great panic and said: "The air force of the Jin state is coming. So he was captured by Wang Maojunsheng.
During this period, Du predetermined Wang Mao to march directly into Jianye and make an immortal contribution, and the imperial court ordered Wang Hun to be under Wang Hun's control, but this order was first conveyed to Wang Hun's army, not to Wang Hun's army, and Wang Mao did not accept Wang Hun's order and led the army forward. Du Pre soon took Jiangling, marched south to capture the jingnan part, and entered Jiaozhou and Guangzhou to seize the remaining territory of Sun Wu. The Book of Jin records that Wang Mao's army captured Wu Zhennan's general Liu Xian along the way, Zhengnan general Chengzhi, Yidu Taishou YuZhong, Jingmen, Yidao Ercheng supervisor Lu Yan, water army governor Lu Jing, Pingxi general Shi Hong, and so on. Liu Xian is likely to be a Member of the Liuzan clan, Yu Zhong is the fifth son of Yu Fan, Lu Yan and Lu Jing are the sons of Lu Kang, and Shi Hong may be after Zhu Ran. The Book of Wu records that Yu Zhong, Lu Yan, and Lu Jing all died in front of the city.
In short, Wang Mao's army encountered little resistance, and when it reached the two important strongholds of Xiakou and Wuchang, most of the Wu army directly surrendered. When Wang Mao's army arrived near Jianye, Sun Hao sent Zhang Xiang to lead tens of thousands of troops to resist, but Zhang Xiang fell without a fight. Wu's general Tao Mao's 20,000 troops collapsed before a battle began, and in the end Wang Hao's acceptance of Sun Hao's surrender was not much different from the surrender of the Shu state, and when Wang Mao took over the jade seal, it meant that the three kingdoms were officially over.