Three Kingdoms Liang General Series of Land Resistance (Special Chapter)
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In September of the first year of the Phoenix Dynasty (272), Xiling Governor Bu explained the rebellion of the city and sent emissaries to surrender to the Jin state. Speaking of Xiling, many friends do not know where it is, in fact, Xiling is Yiling. The situation was quite serious when an important general defending such a strategic position actually defected to the enemy.
The direct cause of Bu Xuan's rebellion was the chaos caused by Sun Hao. Eastern Wu has been practicing a private military system since the time of the jiangdong division of power before the founding of the state, and the generals often have a private armed force that obeys only themselves, and in wartime, the lord grants a force. When the battle was over, the authorized troops would be withdrawn, but the private soldiers still followed the generals. In this way, private soldiers were equivalent to the personal property of the generals, which played a role in encouraging the generals to make meritorious contributions in the early days of Eastern Wu, but as the situation in the Three Kingdoms gradually stabilized, private soldiers became a problem that could not be left behind. Including Sun Quan's meanness and widowhood to many generals and descendants in his later years, in addition to the factor of confusion, in fact, there are also considerations for cutting the domain.
Step by step
Bu Xian's father, Bu Qi, and brother Bu Xie both successively guarded Xiling, and before Bu Xian's rebellion, the three generations of Bu family guarded XiLing for more than forty years. Therefore, not only private soldiers, but also the entire Xiling were naturally regarded as the family's sphere of influence. Therefore, when Sun Hao recruited Bu Yan to go to Jianye to serve as the governor of the tent, Bu Yan was very nervous in his heart, and felt that Sun Hao was moving the tiger away from the mountain, which was not good for himself.
Is there any justification for the worries of the step-by-step? Can't say it's not at all. A few years ago, Bu Xian strongly persuaded Sun Hao to move the capital to Wuchang on the grounds that the strategic position was more favorable. After Sun Hao moved to Wuchang, he found that it was extremely difficult to transport materials from Jiangdong to Wuchang, so he moved the capital back to Jianye in December of the following year.
This matter is not normally a crime, but don't forget that the emperor is Sun Hao, and Sun Hao is not a normal person. As mentioned in the previous issue, Sun Hao was still so angry after killing he Ding that he had turned over the old account and arrested Xue Ying, who had been released after the failure of the canal excavation before, and almost executed her. As for the other ministers who were executed by Sun Hao, some of them didn't even bother to press one of the charges, saying that they would be killed. Now that it is suddenly necessary to recruit and garrison Xiling, it is no wonder that Bu Xiang is self-protective and anti-Wu toujin.
In any case, the rebellion in Xiling City was a foregone conclusion, and Lu Kang, as the supreme general in Jingzhou, quickly sent a number of generals to suppress the rebellion. Lu Kang ordered the Wu army to build a fortification, build a wall from Chixi to the old city, surround Xiling inside, and use this wall to resist the reinforcements of the Jin state. Xiling is not too far from Jiangling, so of course the Wu army has a time advantage over the hastily assembled Jin army, but under the strict orders of the land resistance, the Wu army can only build walls day and night, and the tension is as if the Jin army has arrived in front of them, so the generals are quite complaining.
The main generals advised Lu Kang one after another: "Now with the elite of our army, it is time to quickly attack Bu Xian, and we will be able to capture Xiling and solve the battle before the arrival of jin reinforcements." Why bother to build such a long wall and waste the physical strength of soldiers and people? ”
Lu Kang naturally had a plan and replied: "This Xiling City is extremely strong, the grain and grass are abundant, and the defense and maintenance equipment in the city were all personally arranged by me before, and I know the situation of this city best." Now, if we lead the troops to attack, we will not be able to fight down quickly. When the reinforcements from the north arrive at that time, if our army does not take precautions early, it will be the real enemy on its back, and what will we do then? ”
The Chronicle of the Three Kingdoms and the Biography of Lu Kang contains: The generals want to attack and expound, and resist every one. Yidu was too defensive of Lei Tan's words to be earnest, resisted the desire to convince the people, and obeyed the orders to attack. The attack was not beneficial, and the siege began to close.
History is so interesting, more than fifty years ago, Lu Xun, the father of Lu Kang, insisted on sticking to the battle and waiting for the opportunity when commanding the Battle of Yiling, which was strongly opposed by the generals. A few disobedient generals were defeated in the battle against the Shu army without authorization, and the generals had to obey Lu Xun's orders and finally win the victory.
More than fifty years later, Yiling has been renamed Xiling, and the task of the land resistance is not to defend the city but to attack the city, but the situation faced is very similar: the same great enemy is present, and the same crowd will not be convinced. The next development was also very similar, the generals repeatedly strongly demanded an attack, and Lu Kang always refused to agree. In the end, Yidu Taishou Lei Tan made a generous statement of earnest and emotional emotion, Lu Kang was really unable to resist, and then there might be a general who acted without authorization, so he simply let the generals go up together and attack once. After launching the siege, the Eastern Wu generals could not take any advantage at all, and only then did they find that Lu Kang's words were true, so they settled down to build the wall, and finally completed the siege before the arrival of the Jin army.
When Lu Kang forced all units of the Wu army to build walls day and night, Sima Yan, the emperor of Jinwu, had already sent three large armies to kill Eastern Wu: Shi Yangzhao, the assassin of Jingzhou, led his army to attack Xiling to save his steps, the che general Yang Hu led an army to attack Jiangling, the most important hub of Jingzhou, and Xu Yin, the overseer of Badong, led a water army down from the upper reaches of the Yangtze River to attack Jianping.
Lu Kang was preparing to personally command the battle on the xiling front, but when the news came that the Jin state Yang Hu had attacked Jiangling, the Eastern Wu generals said that Lu Kang should stay in Jiangling, after all, this Jin army was the strongest.
Faced with the unfavorable situation in which there were rebels on the inside and strong enemies attacking from the outside, Lu Kang once again tried to exclude the public opinion. Lu Kang said: "Gangneung City is strong enough and sufficient, there is nothing to worry about. Even if it is assumed that the enemy really captures Gangneung, there is no way to hold on, and the loss is small for us. However, if xiling is lost and the jin kingdom is connected from east to west, then the barbarian tribes in the Jingnan mountains will rise up in rebellion, and it is simply unimaginable how great the threat to our country will be. So in contrast, I would rather give up Gangneung and keep Xiling, not to mention that the defense of Gangneung City is very strong? "With the lessons of Xiling's past, the generals did not object anymore. Therefore, Lu Kang personally came to the front line of Xiling and handed over the defense of Jiangling to Zhang Xian, the governor of Jiangling.
As the transportation hub of Eastern Wu's control of Jingzhou, Jiangling was convenient for land and water transportation. Lu Kang ordered The Governor of Jiangling, Zhang Xian, to build a dam to store water to flood the northern army's southward march. The commander of the Jin army, Yang Hu, had to use pontoon boats to transport grain because of the obstruction of land routes, and threatened to destroy the dam to restore the road. According to the normal script, at this time, the two sides should fight an offensive and defensive battle near the dam, who knows that Lu Kang ordered Zhang Xian to quickly take the initiative to open the dam. At this time, the Generals of the Wu Army were confused again, what was the commander thinking?
The dam that took a lot of effort to build to block the Jin army, how did the Jin army come and take the initiative to destroy it, everyone advised one after another, is it not that the land resistance pressure is too much mental problem?
No matter how others persuaded him, Lu Kang just did not listen, and Wu Jun had to tear down the dam and let the land route be restored. At this time, Yang Hu traveled to Dangyang, and when he heard that the dam had been demolished, he unloaded the grain and grass from the ship and changed it to a car.
"Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Biography of Lu Kang" contains: Resisting the news, making the salt urgently broken. All the generals will be confused and will not listen to them. When he arrived in Dangyang and heard the defeat of the weir, he changed the ship to a vehicle, and lost a lot of effort.
It turned out that as soon as the jin army's grain and grass were tossed, they were caught in the plan of land resistance. Changing from a car to a ship and then from a ship to a car, a toss will waste a lot of time, and it will also produce a lot of grain and grass losses out of thin air. In fact, it does not matter whether it is by water or land, the dam is doomed to be untenable, and the purpose of the land resistance is to delay the speed of Yang Hu's march. Not to mention the flooded roads, which left a muddy trail when the water receded, and the speed of the carriage slowed down considerably.
As mentioned earlier, the Jin Dynasty's troops were divided into three roads, just dragging Yang Hu, and there were two more roads. Lu Kang ordered The Governor of Jiangling, Zhang Xian, to hold the city, and the Public Security Governor Sun Zun patrolled the south bank of the Han River to prevent Yang Hu from landing; the Water Governor Liu Wei and the Zhenxi general Zhu Huan resisted the Jin water army from Xu Yin in the direction of Yizhou; and he himself led the main force of the Wu army to meet the Middle Route Army of the Jin State Jingzhou Assassin Shi Yang Zhao, who was directly attacking Xiling.
Although Lu Kang calmly commanded and responded well in the face of the powerful Jinguo Three-Way Offensive, under the situation that the enemy was strong and we were weak, it was inevitable that some people with weak will defected to the camp. Shortly after lu kang's army entered the wall built to encircle Xiling, the general Zhu Qiao and the camp governor Yu Zan defected to the side of Yang Zhao, the jin state.
Lu Kang was still very calm and said to his subordinates: "Yu Zan is my old subordinate, and he knows the situation of our army very well. I am worried that the training level of the Yi soldiers is relatively poor, and if the enemy comes to attack the wall, he must choose the area where the Yi soldiers are stationed. "Yi bing here refers to the Yiren troops that were absorbed into the Eastern Wu army, and during the Three Kingdoms period, wei shu wu had a considerable number of barbarian tribes recruited into the army.
So Lu Kang transferred the Yi soldiers away from the original defensive area overnight and replaced them with his old unit. Early the next morning, Yang Zhaoguo commanded the Jin army to attack the area, and the prepared land resistance leaders attacked, and the arrows fell like rain, and the Jin army suffered heavy casualties. The two sides held each other for a month, and Yang Zhao had no choice but to take advantage of the night to cover the withdrawal of troops.
The Jin army retreated, and the Wu army should have taken advantage of the situation to pursue. But don't forget that Lu Kang was in the wall against Yang Zhao, but behind him there were still rebel generals in Xiling City, who was the root of this war. In the unlikely event that Lu Kang rushed out to pursue Yang Zhao, it would be difficult for the Wu army to take care of both sides. So Lu Kang ordered the whole army to beat the drums and shout hard, pretending to pursue Yang Zhao. After a while, the Jin army found that Wu Jun was just bluffing, so they let down their vigilance and took off their armor and ran away. Who knew that Lu Resist was real, and secretly sent a light army to sneak attack, and the Jin army was suddenly in chaos, and fled without a collapse.
The Chronicle of the Three Kingdoms and the Biography of Lu Kang contains: Resisting the desire to pursue it, and worrying about explaining the animal power collar, waiting for the gap, the soldiers are not enough, so they beat the drum to warn the crowd, if they will chase. The people of Zhao were fierce, and they were relieved of their armor and marched away, resisting the light troops, and the Zhaoda was destroyed, and The qi and others all led the army back.
Hearing that Yang Zhao's fiasco was defeated, Yang Hu on the East Road and Xu Yin on the West Road could not take advantage, so they retreated one after another. The three major armies of the Jin State all withdrew, and Lu Kang turned around and besieged Xiling. The rebellion led by Bu Xian was already out of the right direction, and now that all foreign aid has been lost, the morale in the city is naturally low. Lu Kang soon captured Xiling City, wiped out the three tribes of Bu Yiyi and his main henchmen, and pardoned tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians in other cities.
Lu Kang repaired the city wall in Xiling, and then returned to the Lexiang garrison, did not have any pride because of a great victory, and was still as humble and polite to people as before, so he was more loved by the soldiers.
The actual story of this issue is the whole process of the Battle of Xiling, and Lu Kang has repeatedly used a very clever strategy to reverse the unfavorable situation in the case of internal and external troubles, and finally not only repelled the menacing Jin army, but also suppressed the steps of the rebellion in zhaocheng. Eastern Wu was able to coexist with the Jin state for many years under the rule of Sun Hao, the emperor, and Lu Kang's efforts to support Ju Zhiwei. In this Battle of Xiling, assuming that any link is not properly handled, Eastern Wu will suffer a heavy blow, and it can be said that Lu Kang has extended the life of Eastern Wu.
A famous allusion related to Lu Kang is called the Friendship of Lu Yang, which says that although Lu Kang and Yang Hu are rivals, they can feel sorry for each other. But the actual situation is far from so simple, in the end what kind of relationship between Lu Kang and Yang Hu, we will continue to talk about it in the next issue. Interested friends please click to pay attention, your support is my continuous update of the biggest motivation, thank you!