Sima Yi was a famous politician, military strategist, and courtier in the Three Kingdoms period and even in Chinese history, and also the founder of the Western Jin Dynasty, whose military strategy was indeed superior, what everyone does not know is that Sima Yi also laid down most of Korea, and today we appreciate Sima Yi's style through the incident in Pingliaodong in 238 AD.
Sima Yi (stills)
Old Ji Fuzhi is in a thousand miles
In the spring of 238 AD, Sima Yi led 40,000 horses from Luoyang to expedition to Liaodong to quell the rebellion of Gongsun Yuan, at this time Sima Yi was 59 years old, still ambitious, it can be said that the old Ji Futuo was in a thousand miles! For this capable courtier, Emperor Wei Ming did not dare to offend and personally sent out the Ximing Gate.
The words say 238 AD, yes
The Fifth Year of the Lunar Calendar, which belongs to the end of the Three Kingdoms, Cao Wei
In the second year of the reign of Emperor Jing of Wei,
After the Shu Han Dynasty, Liu Chan Yanxi was in the first year, The Wu Emperor Sun Quan Jiahe was in the seventh year, and chi wu was in the first year. Two major events occurred in Chinese history this year, one was sun quan's execution of Lü Yi, and the other was that Sima Yiping Liaodong killed Gongsun Yuan!
Portrait of Sima Yi
This Gongsun Yuanzi Wenyi was a native of Xiangping County, Liaodong County (present-day Liaoyang, Liaoning Province), whose grandfather was originally Gongsun Du of Liaodong Commandery ,太守公孙度, and whose father was the left general Gongsun Kang. In 228, Gongsun Yuan snatched the throne from his uncle Gongsun Gongzhong and became the boss of Liaodong, when Gongsun Yuan's territory covered most of present-day Korea. At first, Gongsun Yuan was still in the wings and pretended to submit to Wei, and Emperor Ming of Wei pushed the boat along the water to give him the titles of General Yang Lie and Liaodong Taishou, but Gongsun Yuan repeatedly did not sincerely return. Later, Gongsun Yuan sent envoys to contact Sun Quan of the State of Wu, who felt that he could be used as foreign aid, and in 233 AD, he sent soldiers with the relics used for the canonization, hoping to crown Gongsun Yuan and make him his younger brother. Unexpectedly, Gongsun Yuan rebelled and killed the envoys of the State of Wu, and also took more than 10,000 soldiers of Eastern Wu into captivity. Emperor Ming of Wei was very happy, and he made Gongsun Yuan the Grand Sima and was crowned duke of Lelang. However, this Gongsun Lord, not satisfied with the long-term residence, repeatedly betrayed Wei, and in 237 AD, Gongsun Yuan defeated the Wei army that came to conquest, completely tore his face and rebelled against Wei and established himself, calling himself the King of Yan, establishing the nian title of Shaohan, and sealing up the civil and military officials and setting up administrative and judicial organs at all levels.
The domain of Gongsun Yuan
So there is the story of Sima Yiping Liaodong.
Wading into the water and abandoning the camp directly pounding the Yellow Dragon
Hearing that Sima Yi was coming with troops, Gongsun Yuan quickly contacted Sun Quan of Eastern Wu again, expressing his willingness to surrender and request rescue, and Eastern Wu also quickly gathered a large army and approached the battlefield, but did not believe Gongsun Yuan, just waited and watched, waiting for the opportunity.
Sima Yi's army finally arrived in Liaodong in June, and Gongsun Yuan sent his men
The great generals BeiYan and Yang Zuo led tens of thousands of troops to liao tunnel southwest of Liaoyang, and the two dug trenches on the spot to build high walls to avoid fighting. Obviously, the purpose of Beiyan and Yang Zuo was to wear down the vigor of Sima Yi's army in order to delay change. Sima Yi saw through the plan of the two men and ordered his men to prepare a lot of banners, leaving a small number of troops to bluff and pretend to attack, pinning down the two armies of Beiyan and Yang Zuo. Secretly, elite troops were sent across the Liao River to directly swing their troops under the city of Xiangping (present-day Liaoyang, Liaoning), and When Beiyan and others saw that they had been raided, they were very frightened, and they did not know how many troops the Wei army really had, and it was difficult to distinguish between the false and the real, and they wanted to sneak back to Xiangping at night, and were ambushed and killed by the Wei army.
Stills of Yang Zuo
The Wei army fought three victorious battles in succession, the Yan army suffered heavy losses, the Morale of the Wei army was great, and the soldiers linxiangping prepared to besiege Xiangping.
The bitter support in the water shows the enemy to be weak
The morale of the Wei army was high and preparing to take advantage of the victory to besiege Xiangping City, but the weather was not beautiful, and the Wei army had not yet completed the siege of Xiangping, and the time entered July, when it rained heavily for more than a month. The Liao River flooded, the flood on both sides of the Liao River was gushing, and the white water outside Xiangping City was a vast country, and the flat water was several feet deep. The Wei camp was flooded, and the soldiers and some generals were very frightened, so they found Sima Yi and asked to move the camp to avoid danger. Instead of ordering the relocation of the camp, Sima Yi issued an order: Whoever dared to mention the relocation camp again would be beheaded immediately.
The governor ordered Shi Zhangjing to violate the military order and once again propose to relocate the camp in order to fight again, and Sima Yi immediately ordered Zhang Jing to be pulled out of the big tent and beheaded on the spot. After that, no one dared to mention the relocation camp anymore, and the military's heart gradually stabilized.
At this time, xiangping's Yan army had no grain and grass and no rescue troops, and Gongsun Yuan saw that the Wei army did not attack, and it was not easy to live in the water, so he sent a small group of troops out of the city to graze and collect firewood to find food. Some people in the Wei army believed that the Yan army was testing the falsehood of the Wei army, and suggested that Sima Yi destroy these armies to weaken the strength of the Yan army and undermine the confidence of the Yan army. Sima Yi disagreed, and everyone did not understand, so they asked him: "In the past, when we attacked Shangyong, the Eight-Way Army advanced side by side, attacked day and night, and in 6 days they conquered the city and killed Meng Da. This time, it is most appropriate for us to attack the division and make a quick decision, so why not rush to attack the rebels? ”
Map of the situation in the three countries
Sima Yi smiled: "When attacking Shangyong, we have more soldiers and less food, more soldiers can be gathered and annihilated, and less grain should be quickly decided, so we should fight a decisive battle quickly." And now, we are attacking the Yan army, we have few soldiers and more food, just in time for the heavy rain can not fight a quick decision, at the same time, we are here to put down the rebellion, the most worried is Gongsun Yuan's escape, after Gongsun Yuan fled, we will give up halfway. If we kill those small units, we will force Gongsun Yuan to make up his mind to escape! Now that Gongsun Yuan sees us trapped in the water and wants to gamble one last time, why don't we just plan to show the enemy to be weak, stabilize him, and finally annihilate him completely than just robbing him of a little cattle and sheep? The crowd was convinced when they heard this.
Eliminate evil and completely annihilate the Yan army
The Wei army and the Yan army held each other for a while, the rain stopped, and the Wei army quickly surrounded Xiangping, and attacked in an all-round way day and night by means of building cars, hooks, ladders, and tunnels. Gongsun Yuan had become a turtle in an urn and sent someone to Sima Yi to seek peace in order to survive and wait for the future. Sima Yi directly refused Gongsun Yuan's request, and asked the emissary to bring Gongsun Yuan's words: "Since war has already begun, there must be a result, either kill you, or you surrender. Gongsun Yuan had no choice but to give up. After a few days, the Yan army ran out of grain and grass, the army was discouraged, gongsun Yuan prayed for surrender, and Sima Yi resolutely refused to agree. Gongsun Yuan sneaked out of the city with his son to break through, more than 7,000 people were completely annihilated, and Gongsun Yuan died in the rebellion. The rest of the Yan army all surrendered, and Sima Yi had people release the original Gongsun Gong who had been imprisoned by Gongsun Yuan.
Sun quan
Wei then occupied the four counties of Liaodong, Daifang (around present-day South Hwanghae Province and North Hwanghae Province, Lelang (present-day South Pyongan Province, North Pyongan Province, and parts of North Hwanghae Province, North Hwanghae Province, North Korea), and XuanJu (present-day eastern Liaoning to North Hamgyong Province, North Korea). In the spring of the following year, the class returned to Luoyang.
In April of the following year, Sun Quan's soldiers stopped and went all the way, and when they arrived in Liaodong, Sima Yi had already killed Gongsun Yuan, and Banshi returned to the dynasty. The Eastern Wu army snatched some things from the Wei garrison and went back.
Review
From the process of Sima Yi's pacification of Liaodong, we can see that Sima Yi was a great military strategist with operational intentions, was good at making decisions based on the enemy's situation, and resolutely carried it through to the end. Sima Yi once recovered most of North Korea, you know?