After the Rebellion of the Eight Kings, the Western Jin Dynasty had already been in turmoil, and then it led to the Wuhu Chaos, and the Central Plains completely fell. In desperation, some of the Western Jin dynasty royal families and scholars crossed south and re-established the political power in Jiankang, known in history as the Eastern Jin Dynasty! Although the rule of the Jin Dynasty continued, the actual control areas of the Eastern Jin Dynasty were very few, mainly most of Jiangzuo, while the northern and central plains had already fallen into the hands of the Hu people!
Most of the emperors in ancient times wanted to expand their territory and unify the whole country, and the Eastern Jin Dynasty was no exception. So
The Eastern Jin Dynasty carried out many Northern Expeditions, but most of them were fruitless, and only Liu Yu in the last years of the Eastern Jin Dynasty made achievements!
During the period when Liu Yu was actually in power, he selected a group of talented people to help him quell internal rebellions and eliminate external forces.
Zhu Lingshi was promoted by Liu Yu during this period, and his battle for fame was to destroy Shu!
According to historical records,
The Eastern Jin Dynasty sent troops to Shu three times before and after, the first time the Eastern Jin Dynasty had no choice but to withdraw due to internal rebellion, the second time the Eastern Jin Dynasty withdrew again because of grain and grass and disease problems, and only on the third occasion, the Eastern Jin Dynasty won the war and successfully destroyed the Shu regime. Among them, the third war against Shu shu can be described as a crushing situation in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and the main military commander of the Eastern Jin Dynasty in this battle was Zhu Lingshi.
Zhu Lingshi made great contributions to the development of the Eastern Jin Dynasty in the Battle of The Shu Dynasty, and finally he also successfully rose to the top of the power of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and became a dazzling general star in the historical sky!
After the Eastern Jin Dynasty destroyed the Shu Dynasty, it not only consolidated its rule to a certain extent, but also took advantage of the situation to recover the Guanzhong region, which also laid a solid territorial foundation for Liu Yu to become emperor and establish the Liu Song regime in the future!
Background to the Eastern Jin Dynasty's Battle to Destroy Shu
From its name, it can be known that this is a divided regime located in Shu, and the actual controller is Yu Zhong, whose control area is most of the Sichuan Basin. In 405, after Huan Xuan's usurpation of the throne failed, the Eastern Jin Dynasty was in chaos, and Liu Yu was busy cleaning up the mess and had no time to take care of anything else. At this time, Tan Zhong took the opportunity to rebel and pointed to Chengdu. Li Teng, a tenant in Yizhou, opened the gates of Chengdu and surrendered, and then proclaimed himself king of Chengdu. At the same time, Tan Zhong appointed his own brother Yu Mingzi as the general of Bazhou Assassin Shi and Zhendong, and asked him to lead troops into the White Emperor's City to prevent the Eastern Jin army from attacking.
In this way, the Shu land, which was originally under the control of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, suddenly became an independent divided regime, which made the Eastern Jin Dynasty feel like a fish in the throat! Because Shudi was the lifeblood of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, like the throat of a person, the importance of Shudi was very clear to the ruling class of the Eastern Jin Dynasty. After all, when Sima Shi destroyed Wu, he could not cross the Yangtze River Graben, and the result was to go down the river from Shudi and destroy Eastern Wu in one fell swoop. whereas
At this time, the Eastern Jin Dynasty was facing the same dilemma as eastern Wu at the beginning, because Shudi became independent from the Eastern Jin Dynasty, resulting in the opening of the eastern Jin Dynasty portal, and the strategy fell into great passivity!
At the same time, Shu Shu's own strength was too weak, and if it wanted to survive, it must be dependent on the Hu regime in the north. And this is exactly what the Hu people in the north thought, because they could control the throat of the Eastern Jin Dynasty without soldiers, and when the time was ripe, they could march down the river and take advantage of the situation to destroy the Eastern Jin Dynasty! Therefore, the ruling class of the Eastern Jin Dynasty will never allow such a regime as Shu to exist, and must carry out a crusade and destroy it!
The Eastern Jin Dynasty fought against Shu twice before
I was a partial general of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and in order to destroy the Shu regime in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, Lord Liu Yu sent Mao Zhizhi, Sima Rongqi, Wen Chumao and others for the first time, but
Because Sima Rongqi was killed by the rebel Yang Chengzu, the result was fruitless.
The second time, Mao Zhizhi directly sent troops to destroy Yang Chengzu and avenge Sima Rongqi. At this time, Mao Zhizhi and Wen Chumao wanted to attack Shu again, but were stopped by Yizhou's assassin Shi Bao.
After Mao Yushang wrote a letter requesting support, Liu Yu sent Liu Jingxuan to lead Bao Shu, Wen Chu Mao, and Yan Zu to attack Shu again, and sent a weak soldier led by Wen Zuo as a suspicious soldier to attack Shu, and the main force attacked from the Pad River, but when the attack reached the Yellow Tiger, it was blocked by The crazy resistance of Yu Daofu.
As a result, because of the lack of food and grass, and the death of a large number of soldiers from the disease, they had to retreat!
However, in these two battles, I was unable to participate in these two battles because I was ordered to defend Jiankang, but I only listened to the soldiers who came back saying that they were really not far from victory, but for some objective reasons, they could not win in the end! And these two failures have also become a thorn in Lord Liu Yu's heart. In 409, Later Qin Yaoxing, who was in the north, became a vassal, accepted The Reward of Later Qin, and became the so-called King of Shu. This made Lord Liu Yu feel that it was imminent to destroy Shu Shu,
He wanted to find a general who could fight in battle to send troops against Shu again, and General Zhu Lingshi entered his field of vision!
Zhu Lingshi, the commander of the Eastern Jin Dynasty's Battle of Shu
General Zhu Lingshi was from a family of generals, and his grandfather Zhu Teng and his uncles Zhu Xian and Zhu Bin both commanded troops in the army. However, later, because of Huan Wen's crusade against Yuan Zhen, Zhu Xian and Zhu Bin, who served under Yuan Zhen's account, were believed to have colluded with Huan Wen, and as a result, they were brutally killed by Yuan Zhen. However, General Zhu Lingshi's father, Zhu Qi, escaped, submitted to Huan Wen, and fought bravely and bravely, leading the way!
Later, Because Zhu Qi violated the military rules, Huan Wen wanted to execute him, and finally because Huan Wen's younger brother Huan Chong interceded, he was saved from death. As a result, the loyal Zhu Qi was very grateful to Huan Chong. And General Zhu Lingshi, who grew up in such a loyal and loyal general family since he was a child, naturally he was also very impressed, not only learning a good martial art and strategy, but also being loyal to those who had the grace of knowing themselves!
For General Zhu Lingshi, Lord Liu Yu was his Bole, so he was very grateful to Lord Liu Yu. General Zhu Lingshi had been following Lord Liu Yu from an early age, and was later appreciated by Lord Liu Yu for his outstanding performance in the battle against the Yao brothers and Lu Xun. In 412, I officially met with General Zhu Lingshi, and together we followed Liu Yu's army to Jingzhou, and I was assigned to serve under General Zhu Lingshi. Under the leadership of Lord Liu Yu, we easily defeated Liu Yi, who occupied Jingzhou.
Subsequently, Lord Liu Yu expressed his desire to fight against Shu again and pull out this nail in the eye and the thorn in the flesh! However, with the experience of the previous two failures, Liu Yu was extra careful when considering the candidates for the commander-in-chief. At this time, General Zhu Lingshi went to ask for a meeting, and Lord Liu Yu had a flash of inspiration, and he already had a candidate in his heart to command the army to fight against Shu, that is, General Zhu Lingshi! however
The others all objected one after another, believing that General Zhu Lingshi was inappropriate, but Liu Yu's men and women defied the public opinion, taking General Zhu Lingshi as the assassin of Yizhou and leading 20,000 people to cut down Shu.
And I was also transferred to general Zhu Lingshi's account to serve!
Zhu Lingshi's command and strategy in the Eastern Jin Dynasty's Battle of Shu
Before sending troops to fight against Shu, Lord Liu Yu came to discuss with General Zhu Lingshi the strategy of attacking Shu. After some deliberation, they unanimously said that Shu Shu would definitely think that we did not succeed in attacking them from the internal water last time, so this time we should have attacked from the outside water, but we would do the opposite and attack from the internal water again! Therefore, Shu Shu will definitely put heavy troops in the internal water for defense. If we attack from the internal waters, then we will be in the middle of the heart of Shu Shu! therefore
We can attack the internal water with only a part of the old and weak soldiers, and the main force quietly and directly from the outer water to Chengdu. If it succeeds, a war can destroy Shu Shu!
At the same time, in order to prevent the existence of traitors and Spies of Shu, Liu Yu and General Zhu Lingshi did not make the battle plan public, and only after the White Emperor became did they announce that the main force was directly approaching Chengdu from waishui, while Zang Xi and Zhu Lin and others led a small army from Zhongshui to capture Guanghan, and some soldiers with weak combat effectiveness attacked huanghu from the internal water on tall ships. This move has played a key role in our army's destruction of Shu!
Subsequently, I followed the main army led by General Zhu Lingshi and accelerated to Chengdu. After reaching Peng Mo, General Zhu Lingshi found that the enemy's defensive posture was excellent, and the city was strong, and a hard attack would definitely damage the troops. So he consulted with the generals, and in the end they thought,
Earlier, we claimed that the army was going to attack Fucheng by internal water, and Tan Shu put the main force Yu Daofu in Fucheng for defense, and our main force is here now, and Yu Daofu certainly does not dare to return to the division to rescue, even if it is too late to rescue. Therefore, Shu Shu must be very afraid and uneasy.
As long as we attack, they will be easily defeated, and then we can take Chengdu with a single blow.
If we confront them, then there will be enough time for tandem to rescue us, and then we will face a two-sided attack. Subsequently, General Zhu Lingshi decided to lead us to attack the city. However, when deciding whether to attack the southern city or the northern city, the other generals had a disagreement with General Zhu Lingshi, and the other generals believed that the northern city was more dangerous and difficult to attack, and there were more defenders, so they wanted to attack the southern city
General Zhu Lingshi insisted on hitting the hard and crushing the opponent head-on from the north city. At that time, the South City will not be attacked!
Therefore, General Zhu Lingshi took the lead and led us to attack the northern city. In just one day, we successfully broke through the Northern City and beheaded the defender Hou Hui and Yu Wei.
After taking the north city, we quickly returned to the south city,
As a result, the southern city was just as General Zhu Lingshi had predicted, and it was self-defeating.
Subsequently, our large army directly abandoned the ships, and the whole army changed from walking on foot and marched directly to Chengdu. On the other side, Zang Xi and other departments who passed through the water also won one victory after another. Since then, the defenders in other parts of Shushu have all fled in the wind!
Subsequently, our army completed the siege of Chengdu and attacked Chengdu, and Tan Committed Suicide, and Yu Daofu was captured during his escape and subsequently beheaded. At this point, the Shu regime was destroyed!
The influence of the Shu dynasty on Zhu Lingshi
Under the leadership of General Zhu Lingshi, we won the final victory in the Battle of Shu. And I can pack my bags with my remaining soldiers and my brothers in the other barracks, and return to the long-awaited family members and reunite with them. If it weren't for the war, Yizhou would still be that Yizhou, and the kingdom of Tianfu would still be the country of Tianfu with abundant products! However, because of the war, many people have been separated by yin and yang.
Although I am only a partial general, like other generals, I sincerely thank General Zhu Lingshi. If it were not for his excellent command and outstanding strategy, perhaps we would have fallen into the trap of Shu Shu and become their captives! After the destruction of Shu, I was reassigned back to the Beijing Division and continued to defend Jiankang. Since then, I have rarely seen General Zhu Lingshi, but I have always paid attention to his situation.
After the destruction of Shu, General Zhu Lingshi made those who questioned Liu Yu's use of him to destroy the Shu general feel ashamed, and at the same time made Liu Yu value him even more, and from then on he was in a peaceful state.
Shortly after the destruction of Shu, he was put in charge of the military of the six counties of Liang Prefecture, including Batu, Zitong, and Tangqu, and entered Fengcheng County. In 415, he was awarded the title of Champion General; in 416 AD, Lord Liu Yu led the Northern Expedition, directly promoting him to the rank of General of the Left, and asking him to lead an army to guard the Beijing Division together with Liu Mu! When Lord Liu Yu returned to Pengcheng, he was promoted to the position of Right Sima of Xiangguo. In 418 A.D., he was appointed as an emissary to Guanzhong to take charge of all the military affairs in Guanzhong!
epilogue
The Eastern Jin Dynasty's Battle to Destroy Shu was a choice made by the Eastern Jin Dynasty to sweep away the rebellion and have a stable rear for the future Northern Expedition, although the first and second times failed for some reasons. However, at the time of the third crusade, the Eastern Jin army, led by Zhu Lingshi, broke through the bamboo and won the final victory.
After this battle, the Eastern Jin Dynasty regained control of the Shuzhong region, and also took advantage of the situation to recover the Guanzhong region, and these areas also became important bases for Liu Yu's Northern Expedition to provide human, material and financial resources in the future.
In this battle, Zhu Lingshi let people see his outstanding military talent and the talent of the general, and he also let himself have a shining scene in the long river of history. In 418 AD, when Zhu Lingshi retreated to Tongguan, because the enemy army cut off the water source, the army was trapped and lacking, and finally lost the battle and was captured, and was brutally killed, only 40 years old! A generation of famous generals, this is the fall!