A song heroic, a sword out, a flock of deer,
A song of chivalry, on the occasion of this life, go to the rivers and lakes together.
The CCTV hit drama "Knife Line in the Snow" is about to usher in the finale. Adapted from the novel of the same name, the play tells the story of Xu Fengnian, a son of the family, who eventually grew up to become the King of the Northern Starlings after suffering hardships. The characters in the play have distinct personalities, three-dimensional fullness, and often place themselves between the collision of small families and the world, selfishness and morality, making the plot far-reaching and chivalrous spirit overflowing the screen. In the play, martial arts and fantasy are integrated, and the virtual and the real are mixed, portraying a different picture of temple disputes and sword shadows in the rivers and lakes, and gaining a good reputation.
The play uses the illusory "Bei Starling" as the historical background, and the elevated historical background in the original work is "Beiliang", which is the same as the real regime during the five hu and sixteen kingdoms period in history. However, compared with the spy shadows in the Battle of Shuishui at that time, and the real past of the Northern Liang King's hegemonic side, the wonderful drama is much inferior.
The Eastern Jin Dynasty spy who turned the tide of the battle of Shuishui: Zhu Xu
At the end of the Western Jin Dynasty, the world was in chaos, and the Central Plains clan crossed south in costume and established the Eastern Jin Dynasty in Jiankang. At this time, in the distant Hexi Corridor, ethnic minority regimes were gradually rising, and the powerful Former Qin attempted to annex the turbulent Eastern Jin Dynasty. In 383 AD, Former Qin sent troops to attack the Jin Dynasty, and lost to the 80,000 Northern Fu army of the Eastern Jin Dynasty with the absolute superiority of hundreds of thousands of troops, which is the famous battle in history with fewer victories and more victories - the Battle of Shuishui. In this battle, there was an Eastern Jin spy who played a key role, Zhu Xu.
Zhu Xu was born into a famous family and was the son of the famous Eastern Jin general Zhu Tao, who was loyal and strategic to the Eastern Jin Dynasty. In the battle of Former Qin's army besieging xiangyang city, because some people in the city privately surrendered to Former Qin, they were defeated. Zhu Xu secretly fled to Yiyang and hid in the home of his friend Xia Yu. Jian Jian suspected and arrested Xia Yu, and Zhu Xu came out on his own to show his willingness to surrender in order not to bother Xia Yu. Jian Jian felt that Zhu Xu was very moralistic, so he "Jian Jia did not ask, thinking that he was a shang shu" (尚書). In fact, Zhu Xu only surrendered on the surface, he always had his homeland in mind, secretly collecting military intelligence from Former Qin and waiting for the opportunity.
In the play, Wang Linquan, a courtier around King Jing'an, and Wu Lingsu, the head of Qingyang Mountain, are all spies of the Northern Starlings, responsible for collecting intelligence and secretly protecting Xu Fengnian
In 383, Jian Jian led a large army to the south to attack the Eastern Jin Dynasty. The large army suppressed the territory, and the Eastern Jin Dynasty was helpless. At this critical juncture, Jian Jian sent Zhu Xu as an envoy to persuade xie Shi, the defender of the Eastern Jin Dynasty. The opportunity that Zhu Xu had been waiting for finally came, and he informed Xie Shi of all the information he had obtained in the three years of Former Qin, including the conspiracy of the leaders of various tribes in Former Qin, the combat deployment of the Former Qin army, and so on, and gave Xie Shi advice: "If millions of people in Jianjian know about it, they can fight the enemy. And its failure to meet, hit it, you can get the will. Xie Shi originally thought that the disparity in strength was huge, and planned to stick to no battle, but after listening to the military information and plans sent by Zhu Xu, he was overjoyed and immediately sent an army to surprise the Vanguard Army of Former Qin, winning the first battle and opening the prelude to the Battle of Shuishui.
The Battle of Shuishui. In the melee, the former Qin commander Fu Rong was killed in battle, and Jian Jian fled in the middle of the arrow, leaving in vain the allusion that "the wind and the crane are loud, the grass and trees are soldiers"
In December of that year, the two armies confronted Shuishui. Jian Jian insisted on waiting for the Jin army to cross to the middle of the water to attack, so the Former Qin army moved back from the bank of the water and waited for the opportunity. Just as he was retreating, Zhu Xu shouted in the army: "The army on the front line has collapsed!" The Former Qin army immediately confused itself, the army was scattered, and the Jin army took the opportunity to attack with all its might and defeated Former Qin. The Battle of Shuishui enabled the continuation and development of the Central Plains culture that had wandered to the south, and Zhu Xu lay dormant for three years and turned the tide at a critical moment, which can be said to be indispensable.
Appoint a wise monarch who is in charge of secrets: Depressed Qu Mengxun
During the Period of the Five Hu and Sixteen Kingdoms, there was also an ethnic minority monarch who unified Hexi, the Northern Liang King Frustrated Qu Mengxun, who also wrote a legendary hegemony in history.
During his 33-year reign, he studied and inherited the culture of the Central Plains, developed Buddhism, and promoted ethnic integration. He also paid attention to restoring the economy, developing agriculture, building water conservancy, revitalizing commerce and trade, and rectifying the program of the dynasty, laying a solid foundation for the consolidation of the Northern Liang regime. The Zizhi Tongjian records that he "practiced political affairs internally, honored the wise and wise externally, and when he attacked the war, he was a soldier and a soldier, and the people cherished it, and enjoyed it." This is also similar to the image of Xu Fengnian, the son of the Northern Starling, who has gone through thousands of miles of experience in the rivers and lakes in the play, and has always been concerned about the world's cangsheng, sympathetic to the soldiers, Taoguang and obscurity, and recruiting talents.
Xu Fengnian (Zhang Ruoyun) in order to eliminate the suspicion of the Yang Imperial Family about himself, in order to protect himself, deliberately rendered himself a clumsy, unlearned image
After destroying Xiliang, he treated the sages of Xiliang, regardless of the suspicion of having done things in Xiliang, and "used them with courtesy", and even let people of moral integrity and ability take charge of major state affairs involving confidentiality in Northern Liang.
He also has outstanding military ability, he carefully observes the changes in the surrounding geography and celestial phenomena before the battle, pays special attention to the collection of military intelligence and the secrecy of combat deployment, is very cautious about military operations, and often uses troops by surprise and repeatedly wins. After more than thirty years of eastern expeditions to the west, Mengxun successively attacked Houliang, Bananliang, Xiliang, Western Qin, Dingdu Guzang, GaochangShijun, and Jingluo Western Regions.
In 429, the formerly weak Depression Canal Clan Northern Liang unified the Hexi Corridor, realizing the great ambition of "Scattering Horse Golden Mountain, Li Yuan Yongyi" of The Depressed Canal Mengxun. During the killing and conquest, the Northern Liang army discipline was strict, "forbidden to invade, the soldiers and the people were blocked", and also won the support and support of the people, and the brief unification of Hexi also bought a moment of tranquility and respite for the Li people under the successive years of conquest.