In Chinese history, there are such a pair of uncles and nephews who have made great contributions.
When the Hu regime, which ruled the entire north, invaded the south with 870,000 troops, it was they who fought for the Chinese nation and avoided the battle of Yashan in the Southern Song Dynasty.
Shenzhou Lu Shen
The tragedy of the Millennium came ahead of schedule.
The uncle sat in the center, presided over the overall situation, completed the war preparations, the nephew commanded the army on the front line, charged into the front, and finally, as the mainstay of the mainstream, turned the tide of the tide, and won this epic miracle battle.
They, of course, were in command of the Battle of Shuishui
Xie An
and
Xie Xuan
Uncle and nephew.
Eastern Jin Dynasty Shang Shu Ling: Xie An (320 – 385 CE)
Champion general of the Eastern Jin Dynasty: Xie Xuan (343 – 388 CE)
They face opponents
Jian Jian,
It was a generation of heroes who knew people and had both great talents and great talents, and the military and political performance in the first thirty years of his reign was not less than that of Kublai Khan of Mengyuan and Taiji, the emperor of the Manchu Qing Dynasty:
Former Qin Heavenly King: Jian Jian
Jian Jian was originally a subordinate of the Former Qin imperial family, but he was able to closely form henchmen, kill his cousin Gong Sheng, seize the throne in one fell swoop, and then use the unparalleled talent of the guoshi
Wang Meng
, such as the division commander, entrusted with heavy responsibilities, and at the same time appointed Lü Polou, Liang Pinglao, Quan Yi, Xue Zan and other able ministers,
The monarchs and subjects worked together to rectify the rule of officials, suppress the powerful and powerful, promote education, establish Taixue, develop water conservancy, persuade peasants to teach, lightly dispense with thin service, build Chi Dao, promote commerce, and make the former Qin regime, which was originally a small and medium-sized country, quickly become stronger.
Former Qin Chancellor: Wang Meng
Wang Meng led an army to attack Former Yan, defeated Former Liang repeatedly, and unified the Central Plains. The Former Qin army also captured Liang Yi'er Prefecture in the Eastern Jin Dynasty and occupied the land of Bashu Hanzhong.
After Wang Meng's death, Jian Jian took charge of the state administration, relying on strong national strength, first destroyed Qianliang, then attacked Tuoba Xianbei's daiguo (the predecessor of the later Northern Wei Dynasty), unified northern China, and went south to seize the two strategic towns of Xiangyang and Pengcheng in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and then sent Lü Guang to march west to pacify more than thirty countries in the western region.
At that time, the talents of the Central Plains were gathered, all in the former Qin capital Chang'an, the so-called "Yang Huai is lush, Hua Che Luan Phoenix, and there are two Han Dynasty founding weather." In order to mix up Yi Yunei and attack the Eastern Jin Dynasty regime on the left side of the AnJiang, and raise the strength of the country, Jian Jian mobilized a large army of 870,000 people to march south, and shouted out arrogantly."
Throw a whip to break the flow."
The slogan is that with the horse whip of the army under his command, you can cut off the natural danger of the Yangtze River.
When Jiangnan heard the news, the people were panicked, and the heavy responsibility of protecting the country and resisting the enemy was all pressed on Xie An in the center and Xie Xuan in the front. Not many people are optimistic about them.
Huan Chong, the leader of the Huan clan who sat in Jingzhou and the commander of the Xifu Army, thought that Xie An was only a civilian minister, did not know the generals, the enemy was at present, and only knew how to play and gossip, Xie Xuan was even more a "young man who did not care", plus the enemy was widowed, and this battle would undoubtedly be lost, sighing that the Chinese nation would henceforth become a slave of the Hu tribe wearing the left.
Huan Chong: [Xie An has the amount of a temple, and he is not idle. Now that the great enemy is coming, Fang Youyou has no time to talk, although he has sent all the young people who have not done anything, and the crowd is weak, and the world knows everything, and I am left and right! 】
However, in the many years of war between Former Qin and the Eastern Jin Dynasty, although the Jin army lost a heavy town, it never fell behind in the confrontation of equal troops. Huan Chong's older brother
Huan Wen
In the last battle of his life, the Battle of Shouchun in 371 AD, yi waited for labor, and broke the former Qin generals Wang Jian and Zhang Oyster, and the shame of the defeat of the Yixue Fangtou army.
Eastern Jin Dynasty Grand Sima : Huan Wen
Huan Chong himself sent his nephew Huan Shiqian (桓石虔) at the Battle of Jinling in 381 AD to repel the Qin general Yan Zhen's invasion and take him prisoner.
The eastern front battlefield that Xie's uncle and nephew were responsible for, financial preparation, the establishment of a new army, armament training, and army deployment, were all decided by Xie An, and Xie Xuan executed, and a crack army that was established after decades of domination of the world:
Northern Province Army
】！
In 378 AD, the Qin general Peng Chao led an army of 60,000, invaded Xuzhou, captured Xuyi, killed the Jin general Mao Zao, and all other Jin reinforcements retreated in fear of the enemy, and the 35-year-old Xie Xuan led the Beifu army to meet the enemy first, attacking the crowd with a widow, winning consecutive battles, killing the Qin generals Du Yan and Shao Bao successively, and then dividing the troops to break the enemy's pontoon bridge, sinking their heavy ships, and finally annihilating this Qin army in one fell swoop, Peng Chao only spared himself.
With the merits of this battle, Xie Xuan also formally established his prestige in the army and the prestige of the Beifu Army.
In May 383, Huan Chong led an army of 100,000 to northern Xiangyang, but was easily deterred by the rescued Former Qin general Murong Chui with a bluff and suspicious tactic, and withdrew his army. After that, Jian Jian sent Qin to lead Yao Cang's water army from Yizhou to the east, and Murong Chui to march west from the east to Jiangxia, and to suppress Huan Chong, who was sitting in Jiangling, to the point of being unable to move.
Former Qin champion general: Murong Chui
In August of that year, Jian Jian led 250,000 infantry and horsemen as the front army with his brother Zhi Rong, led 120,000 soldiers and horses in Guanzhong to suppress the rear army, and Xiao led Liang Cheng to lead 50,000 of the most elite soldiers and horses as the forward and killed the Huainan battlefield.
Xie Xuan dispatched his general Liu Gaozhi to lead 5,000 Northern Prefecture troops to meet Liang Cheng's army in Luojian, and the Jin army, like a fierce tiger into a wolf pack, annihilated the enemy army in one fell swoop, and the exact number of beheadings alone was as high as 15,000.
General of the Eastern Jin Dynasty: Liu Jiaozhi
After this battle, the Qin army was emboldened by it, and the jianjian color was strong, but in fact, it had long been completely unconfident, and only then did it have the eight gong mountain
Grass and trees are soldiers
Finally, in the main battlefield of Shuishui, facing the 80,000 Northern Province army led by Xie Xuan, the Qin army was able to fall into chaos with even a tactical retreat.
Xie Xuan keenly seized the favorable fighter, led the 8,000 pioneers to take advantage of the situation to cover up the killing just after crossing the river, and the follow-up soldiers and horses followed suit, killing the former enemy commander of the Qin army, Xiang Rong, who was also wounded by an arrow, and the center of the Qin army was in chaos, the soldiers trampled on each other, routed and fled, threw themselves into the water and died countless people, and the corpses sank into the water.
And the large number of Qin troops who abandoned their armor and fled north were even more so
Afraid of one's own shadow
Under the constant pursuit and killing of the Jin army, few people could escape back to the Central Plains alive, and the equipment, military assets, and treasures captured by the Jin army were piled up, and more than 100,000 cattle, horses, donkeys, mules, camels, and other livestock were piled up.
At the end of the great war, Jian Jian fled back to Luoyang, collecting only more than 100,000 defeated soldiers, the battle loss ratio exceeded 2/3, it was difficult to maintain a Hu alliance, suppress the remaining ethnic ambitionists, Xianbei Murong Chui, Murong Chong and the Qiang leader Yao Cang and others took advantage of the chaos to raise troops one after another, the huge Former Qin Empire collapsed, and Jian Jian himself was killed by Yao Cang two years later at The Five Generals Mountain.
This defeat of Jian Jian lost the first thirty years of his life's work, lost the vast empire of thousands of miles, and left behind many idioms such as "throwing whips and breaking the stream", "the wind and the cranes", "grass and trees are soldiers", and became the laughing stock of Qianqiu. In the end, the coffin was conclusive, from a generation of heroes who swallowed up the eight wildernesses, to a negative example of obstinate behavior and self-destruction.
At a time when the national fortune was in danger, it turned the tide to achieve an earth-shattering reversal, gave the enemy an annihilating blow, and directly destroyed a powerful empire, which was the only case in Chinese history.
Just by virtue of this battle, Xie Xuan, who turned 40 years old, and Zhou Yu, who won the Chibi War at the age of 34, are on a par with Qingshi, and "the sachet is not solved" has become a good story like "Xiao Qiao's first marriage".
Just by virtue of this battle, Xie An, a popular prime minister who was poetic and wine-flowing, dashing and free-spirited, and talked and laughed and broke the enemy, became a life idol that countless literati in later generations were eager to live for, and a historical spokesman for Wei and Jin.
Li Baishiyun:【
The north of Sanchuan is chaotic, and the four souths of the sea are like Yongjia. But use Dongshan Xie Anshi to talk and laugh for Jun Jing Husha!
】
Wei Zhao, An Gong, Zhao Zhao, Xuan Shuai! Renowned, through the ages!
(Only a half-understanding and contrarian thinking such as Bai Yang would write a passage in his writings, saying that "the Battle of Shuishui was a blessing for the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and it was won by luck, and Xie An did nothing but play chess and travel freely.") It has also misled many people. ）
After that, Xie An spent a year integrating the internal affairs of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, redistributing power, balancing the interests of all parties, and even more he did not hesitate to let the Xie family of Chen County, for the country, making a major sacrifice: giving up the central power to Sima Daozi of the clan, and said that as long as the Northern Expedition was successful, he would resign and return to the huihui to travel to the forest and not ask about the world.
Finally, with his efforts, in August of the ninth year of the Taiyuan Dynasty (384 AD), the Eastern Jin Dynasty launched a comprehensive counterattack against the Central Plains on the long front of the East and West:
Xie Xuan of the Eastern Route led the Beifu soldiers north from Guangling and recaptured Xuzhou, Yanzhou, Qingzhou, and Yuzhou all the way. The Huan's Xifu army on the western road also sent troops to retake Sizhou, Liangzhou, and Yizhou.
In just one year, the Eastern Jin Dynasty expanded its territory, and the entire area south of the Yellow River was re-incorporated into the territory. Moreover, taking advantage of Murong Fu's war between the Later Yan regime and the Former Qin regime, the Eastern Jin Dynasty's troops had advanced to Yecheng, the center of the Hebei region.
It's just a pity that God doesn't bless Huaxia! Xie An had planned to continue the Northern Expedition with both east and west after the next spring, but soon after that, he fell ill and died at the age of 66.
Sima Yao, the emperor of Xiaowu, and Sima Daozi, the ruler, rejected Xie Xuan's request to continue the Northern Expedition. Soon after, Xie Xuan was also seriously ill, had to resign from the military, returned to huiji to recuperate, and died a few years later, at the age of 45.
At this point, it is not only the most glorious period of history since the founding of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, but also come to an end. The Han people also missed the best opportunity to recover the Central Plains in the hundreds of years since the separation of the north and the south.
Only because Xie An's day did not leave the year, Xie Xuan's untimely death.
Pity, pain!
Later generations of history books evaluate: "Its combination will be in China and abroad, it will survive in the society, it will be the end arch of the negative capital, and the sinking of the well will rely on Yan An, but the Xie Shihu! 】
Xie An: [The millions of people in Jian Jian have overlooked the Wu River, and their clothes are easy to worry about, and their hearts are far away. Calmly and recklessly plotting, feasting and clearing the crowd, Chenju won the solidity of the Taishan, but yang to remove the danger of tired eggs, Si wei sheng. 】
Xie Xuan: [Kang Le Cai and Wen Wu, Zhi Cun Kuang Ji, The Battle of Huai Fei, The Land Collapse of Xun Kou, the Master of the Vortex, and the Zhongzhou Should Be Swept Away.] [Wei Zhao offers martial arts, and gong proclaims the axe.] Ke Qi fierce canal, several Qing Zhongyu. 】