This article is the seventh in a series of "Brief Reading of the History of Jin" of the Three Kingdoms.
The focus of this article: Sima Yi ping Liaodong full documentary
After the duel with Zhuge Liang, in order to alleviate the famine in the Kwantung region, Sima Yi sent an army to the Beijing Division with a large amount of grain and grass. In the fourth year of the Qinglong, Sima Yi obtained the white deer and offered it to Cao Rui, which should have been licked by the way. After Cao Rui received the offering of XiangRui, he quoted the scriptures to praise Sima Yi.
One: The eve of the conquest of Liaodong
Although Cao Wei had temporarily lost the great crisis on the shu han side, Wu Guo had been making small moves. Wu Guo's best friend was Gongsun Yuan in the Liaodong region. Previously, the author has shared all the behaviors of Gongsun Yuan's wall head grass from many perspectives, so its repeated and horizontal operations will not be repeated in this article.
After Gongsun Yuan defeated Yuqiu Jian, he established himself as king, established the state and changed the Yuan, and officially tore his face with Cao Wei. The problem left over from the history of Liaodong should also be broken, and Cao Rui immediately summoned Sima Yi to the Beijing Division. Cao Rui said to Sima Yi: "Originally, I didn't want to trouble you with the matter of conquest of Liaodong, but I always wanted to do things well, and this matter would trouble you." So do you have any good plans for the Crusade? ”
Sima Yi pointed out: "If Gongsun Yuan abandons the city and flees, it is a good plan. If he defends Liaoshui against our army, it is a medium plan. If you only stick to Xiangping, it is tantamount to sitting still. ”
Cao Rui asked again why. Sima Yi said: "Only people who understand will deeply refer to themselves and their opponents, and if they immediately abandon their capital, this is something that Gongsun Yuan cannot do." Now that we are leading an expedition, the enemy must have thought that our army would not last. He will definitely defend Xiangping after the Liaoshui fortification first. Gongsun Yuan would adopt this lower-middle-level tactic. ”
Tianzi asked again when he would be able to pacify Liaodong and return. Sima Yi said frankly: "It takes 100 days to go to the battlefield, 100 days to return after the war, 100 days to attack Liaodong, plus 60 days of rest, one year can be enough." ”
Before Sima Yi went out on the expedition, combined with Cao Rui's great construction and the loss of farmers, the army was frequently mobilized. Sima Yi advised Cao Rui to temporarily halt the construction of the palace and excessively intensive labor, and to give priority to solving the main problems.
In the second year of the Jing Dynasty, Sima Yi led Niu Jin, Hu Zun and other infantry and cavalry for 40,000 troops from the capital. Tianzi personally sent Sima Yi out of the Ximing Gate, and Cao Rui also asked Sima Fu and Sima Shi to go to their hometown of Wen County to offer condolences and ordered the local county sheriffs and other officials to meet them. When Sima Yi learned that his father and father had been drinking for several days and enjoying himself, Sima Yi sighed for a long time and felt it, composing a song: "The earth is opened up, and the sun and moon are bright again." Encounters, bi lily. Will sweep away the filth and return to the hometown. Sweep away thousands of miles, and there are always eight wildernesses. Finish up and return to old age, wait for sin to dance yang. ”
Two: Qiaodu Liaoshui
Everything was ready, and Sima Yi led his army to formally march. The army passed through places such as Lone Bamboo and Jieshi, and finally approached Liaoshui. At this time, Gongsun Yuan did indeed send tens of thousands of infantry cavalry to the other side of the Liaoshui River to defend the wall. In order to expand the defensive area, the defensive front from north to south was opened for sixty or seventy miles. Sima Yi saw this situation and arranged for a small number of troops to set up more flags to go to the south to bluff, in fact, the east attacked the west and prepared to smuggle across the northern riverbank. Gongsun Yuan's men were all confused by the army sent by Sima Yi to the south to support, so Sima Yi's army easily crossed the river from the north and detoured to attack the camp of Gongsun Yuan's army. When everyone thought that Sima Yi was going to kill Gongsun Yuan's foreign army first, Sima Yi left behind the troops to besiege the enemy camp and suddenly led his army straight to Xiangping, seemingly trying to directly attack Huanglong.
Sima Yi's move puzzled the generals, who asked why they went straight to the enemy capital and directly attacked Xiangping. Sima Yi pointed out that the enemy army was holding a strong camp and was hoping that we would fight with him. If we rush to attack, we will be right in the opponent's strategy. Subsequently, Sima Yi quoted the scriptures to emphasize that if he attacked Xiangping, the enemy would be feared, so that our army would definitely break the enemy. Sima Yi's surprise attack really attracted the attention of Gongsun Jun, and the army took the initiative to leave the camp. Who knew that Sima Yi quickly ordered the generals to attack the enemy troops who had left the camp and won a complete victory. Gongsun's army returned to Xiangping after suffering a defeated battle, and Sima Yi's army gradually besieged the city.
It is said that earlier when Gongsun Yuan heard that Sima Yi was coming, he wrote a letter to Sun Quan to ask for help, and Sun Quan did indeed send rescue troops, and also wrote a letter to Gongsun Yuan: "Sima Yi is good at using soldiers, unpredictable, and I am deeply worried about you. ”
Three: Siege of the city
Although Sima Yi's army gradually besieged the city, it encountered heavy rain, and even some of the flat land had several feet of accumulated water, which caused Sima Yi's army to panic, and some people even suggested moving to other places to camp. When Sima Yi learned of this, he ordered the army to behead any more people who dared to say that they were "movers", including the governor Shi Zhangjing, so that the army could stabilize.
It is said that it was raining heavily at that time, and some of the troops of the Gongsun Army took advantage of this period to go out of the city to mucus. The Wei generals hoped to take the opportunity to sneak up on Qiao Mu's enemy forces, but Sima Yi stopped them.
Sima Yi, a Man of the Wei army named Chen Gui, asked Sima Yi: "When we attacked Shangyong, we attacked day and night in many ways, so we could quickly break through the city and kill Meng Da. Now that we have come from afar and attacked so slowly, I am stupid but still very confused. ”
Sima Yi pointed out that Meng Da's army was relatively small, and the grain and grass in his city could support for a year, but at that time our army was four times larger than his army and could not maintain food for a month. Four times the strength of the enemy, this should have been done at that time. In this way, regardless of casualties, it is actually a race against food. At present, the enemy is outnumbered, and the enemy has less food and more food for our army. It's raining heavily, and it's impossible for us to fight quickly. I set out from the capital to pacify Liaodong, not afraid of the enemy's attack, only afraid of the enemy's escape. Now that the enemy's food is at the bottom, and our encirclement has not yet been fully formed, if at this time we plunder the enemy's cattle and horses to prevent them from harvesting, we will force them to flee. The enemy relies on the climate to hold the city, although some hunger, but still choose to insist on resistance, we need to give the enemy the illusion of "incompetence" on its own side. It is not right to compete for small profits to scare the enemy.
When Sima Yi's army fell, the imperial court also debated endlessly, and many ministers hoped that Tianzi would issue an edict to Sima Yi to withdraw his army. However, Cao Rui said that Sima Yi could make a change in the face of danger and capture Gongsun Yuan in the near future.
We returned to the battlefield, and Sima Yi completed the siege when the rain stopped, and Sima Yi ordered a large army to attack the city.
Because the rain had been delayed for so long, the Wei army was not polite, and they took the method of digging tunnels on the mound of earth to assist the powerful attack of the arrows, day and night.
One day, a meteor crossed from the southwest direction of Xiangping City to the northeast of the city and disappeared into the Liangshui area, which caused panic in Xiangping City. In fact, this is just a normal phenomenon, but people at the time thought that this was a big omen. Gongsun Yuan, believing that the heavens were no longer taking care of him, sent emissaries to request surrender. Sima Yi killed the emissary and refused to surrender to Gongsun Yuan.
After Sima Yi killed the envoy, he also wrote a letter to Gongsun Yuan, quoting the scriptures and saying that the messenger who came before did not correctly express your meaning, I have killed, and you will send a young and sensible person to be the messenger.
The next day Gongsun Yuan sent an emissary to Sima Yi again, proposing that he wanted to exchange the Wei state for retreating troops by means of hostage-taking, and Sima Yi told the emissary: "The military pays attention to being able to fight in battle, not to be defended in battle, not to be defended, or to surrender and die in battle." Either you surrender and you don't have to take hostages. ”
Four: massacre and appeasement
When Gongsun Yuan learned of the fruitless communication and decisively broke through from the south, Sima Yi ordered his army to pursue and behead Gongsun Yuan at Liangshui, where the meteor had fallen before. Sima Yi's army entered the city and divided Gongsun Yuan's army into two teams according to certain requirements. Sima Yi ordered that men over the age of fifteen in the city be killed (suspected men who had surrendered), a total of more than 7,000 people, and built a jingguan. All officials below the secretary of state of the puppet regime were killed, and a total of 2,000 generals or leaders with military ranks were killed.
Sima Yi counted the local population and appeased a total of 40,000 households, totaling more than 300,000 people.
It is said that Gongsun Yuan usurped the position obtained by his uncle Gongsun Gong, and after the war, Gongsun Gong was still in prison. In addition, during the rebellion of Gongsun Yuan, his generals Lun Zhi, Jia Fan and others tried to persuade each other but were killed. Sima Yi ordered the release of Gongsun Gong, the repair and improvement of the graves of Lun Zhi and others, and the preferential treatment of their descendants.
After doing the above, Sima Yi first quoted the scriptures and then gave the order. All those who were misled by Gongsun Yuan were exonerated, and if there were people from the Central Plains who wanted to return to their hometown, all arrangements were made.
Sima Yi also strictly demanded his subordinates, and at that time, some people in the Wei army felt cold due to the lack of clothes, so they asked Sima Yi for clothes. Sima Yi refused to point out that the cotton jacket was an official item and that I, as a human subject, had no right to issue them. However, Sima Yi also initiated the Son of Heaven and dismissed more than a thousand soldiers over the age of sixty in the army.
Five: Afterword
Sima Yi won a great victory and Banshi returned to the dynasty, and Tianzi sent emissaries to work in the Ji region, while adding Sima Yi's food.
It is said that when Sima Yi entered Xiangping City, he dreamed one night that "the Son of Heaven was on his knees", and Tianzi also asked Sima Yi to "look at my face".
Moreover, in Sima Yi's dream, Cao Rui looked down at Sima Yi differently than usual, which made Sima Yi feel disgusted.
Text: Talking about the author of the Three Kingdoms XXY