The history of the Three Kingdoms is familiar to many people. Two key figures appeared in the north at the same time, Cao Cao and Sima Yi, who can be described as a general who is on the same wall and looks at Kyushu. However, Cao Cao Chibi lost and collapsed. When Sima Yi's troops encountered Zhuge Liang, they were tired of running for their lives and did not slip away. The two kept losing the battle, so they had to put aside their ambitions and think about the long term. However, the relationship between the two is extremely delicate. Centrifugal detachment, both struggle and alliance, both fortification and use, mutual help and forbearance, stalemate, this relationship continues to the next generation. After Cao Cao's death, Cao Pi was not in a hurry, and he took advantage of the so-called support of the Sima family to establish Wei in 220 AD. However, the Cao Wei regime was ultimately unable to consume the Sima family, and in 265 AD, Sima Yi's grandson Sima Yan deposed the Cao Wei regime and established the Western Jin Dynasty.
Before the establishment of the Western Jin Dynasty, the Cao Wei regime controlled by the Sima family had already destroyed the Shu Han Dynasty, and the Three Kingdoms had become two countries. The Western Jin Dynasty was established, and Sima Yan vowed to unify China. However, although the state of Wu was in decline, it was still relatively wealthy, its troops were not weak, and there was a Natural Graben on the Yangtze River, and even more lessons from the previous battle of Chibi made the Western Jin Dynasty jealous, and Sima Yan dared to launch a unified war.
Sima Yan hesitated again and again, but he could not make up his mind. At this time, he remembered a person. This man is Yang Taifu.
(Sheep)
Who is Yang Taifu? Sheep also. Yang Hu was born in the "Taishan Yang Clan", a famous writer in the Wei and Jin dynasties, and the nephew of Cai Wenji, a talented woman at the end of the Han Dynasty. In addition to his literary talent, historians also gave him the title of "politician, strategist, and military man", who was able to write and be a martial artist. Sima Yan started with the Shi clan, and Yang Hu was the representative of the Shi clan, and with him, Sima Yan was not worried about the instability of the country.
When Emperor Wu of Jin was at a loss, he approached Yang Hu for consultation. Yang Hu said, you give me time, I will go to the border, check the situation on the ground, and then report to you. Sima Yan said: "Well, go, you must be able to do it." He then ordered Yang Hu to guard the border town and dispatched heavy troops for his use in preparation for the annihilation of Wu.
After Yang Hu arrived in office, he first occupied strategic areas and places rich in products, implemented tun tian, and made full material preparations for future military operations. When Yang Hu fought against the State of Wu, he did not want to defeat the other side, but used the heart-attacking battle to win the hearts and minds of the generals of the State of Wu. The soldiers and people of the State of Wu who were captured by him were either sent back or warmly entertained, and after a long time, some people in the State of Wu actually called Yang Qi the Duke of Sheep. The image of Yang Hu in the minds of the Wu people had long compared the faint Wu lord Sun Hao to the side.
(Sima Yan, Emperor Wu of Jin)
Don't underestimate this strategy. People's hearts affect morale, and morale shakes the national system. Sun Hao, the lord of Wu, clearly knew that the north would attack sooner or later, and still thought that the Yangtze River graben could not be crossed, and was still like a walking dead, absurd, and brutal, so that the Wu state lost the opportunity to regroup.
Sun Hao ordered the minister's daughter to be selected by him first, and the beautiful palace was for him to enjoy, and the rest could be discussed and married, which made him lose the support of the ministers. The minister who advised him would not only not be praised, but would be sawn off his tongue or brutally beaten to death with a red-hot saw blade. Sun Hao killed many people, very cruel, such as gouging out his eyes, peeling his face, cutting off his feet, etc., which made his generals lose confidence and surrender to the Western Jin Dynasty.
Wu Guo's heart was unstable, and Yang Hu saw the opportunity and felt that the time had come to cut down Wu. However, when the song was sent to the imperial court, the Ministers of the Jin Dynasty vigorously obstructed it. Sima Yan was always unable to make up his mind to destroy Wu. Soon, the bad news came, Yang Hu died, and he could not wait for the day when the country would be unified.
However, before Yang Hu's death, he wrote a detailed military plan for Sima Yan to attack the state of Wu, and recommended Du Qian to replace him in garrisoning the border town.
It was this plan that led sima Yan to make up his mind to attack the state of Wu. In full accordance with the strategy formulated by Yang Hu during his lifetime, he sent 200,000 troops to attack the Eastern Wu capital Jianye (present-day Nanjing, Jiangsu). Specifically, the Zhennan general Du Preda marched to Jiangling; the Andong general Wang Hun (王浑) marched east to Hengjiang (in present-day Anhui); and there was also a water army, led by Yizhou's assassin Shi Wang Mao, attacking along the river and down the river to the east. Du Pre shouldered a big responsibility, and Emperor Wu of Jin was also testing him.
After Du Pre arrived in Jingzhou, he actively made military arrangements and sent troops to raid Xiling (西陵, southeast of present-day Yichang, Hubei). Xiling is the western important town of Sun Wu, and its strategic location is very important. As long as the Jin army can break through Xiling, the water division of Yizhou can go down the river and gallop through Jingzhou. After the large army was deployed, Du Pre ordered his army to surround Xiling. Xiling City was strongly defended, easy to defend and difficult to attack, du Pre did not want to consume time and troops here, and only surrounded it without annihilating, cutting off the connection between Xiling and the outside world.
There is nothing wrong with Yang Hu recommending Du to take over his own class. According to the Book of Jin, Du Pre himself did not have any martial arts, not even riding a horse, let alone the art of archery. But whenever there was a military activity, the imperial court had to summon his staff officers to plan, because he knew the other and knew himself, and he was good at fighting with the enemy. In the war against Wu, the Wu people hated Du Xian the most, mainly because he was good at using troops and often dealt fatal blows to the enemy. Du Pre had a big neck disease, so the People of Eastern Wu put a water scoop on the dog's neck, saw the tree with a long bag, wrote "Du Pre Neck", and then cut it down to vent their hatred for Du Pre.
(Western Jin Dynasty Unification War)
Wang Mao was also a capable general, he had built a large number of warships in Yizhou, and the ships also built city walls and towers, on which people could stand and look around.
In order not to let Eastern Wu discover, shipbuilding was carried out in secret. However, many of the cut pieces of wood still flowed down the river and drifted to the water boundary of Eastern Wu. When Eastern Wu Taishou Wuyan found out, he suddenly felt bad, and he immediately reported to the Wu lord Sun Hao: "The Jin army is building ships in the upper class, it seems that they are going to attack Eastern Wu, and we should be prepared for defense." However, Sun Haoman didn't care and said, "What are you afraid of!" We don't beat him, they still dare to violate me! ”
Wu Yan had no choice but to take precautions himself. He ordered the people to lay large wooden stakes in dangerous places on the river surface, nail large iron chains, intercept the waist of the river, and place iron cones that were more than a foot high on the surface of the water, like countless reefs, making it impossible for the Jin water army to pass. His method worked very well. When the Jin army launched an attack, this move effectively hindered the progress of the Jin army. The Jin army spent (or even sacrificed) a lot of manpower and material resources to remove or burn the obstacles in the river.
Under du pre's command, the Jin army pointed directly at Jiangnan, and the momentum was like a bamboo, and soon captured the Wu capital Jianye and captured Sun Hao alive. The state of Wu lasted for 52 years from the time Sun Quan declared himself emperor to the time he was destroyed by Sima Yan, the emperor of the Western Jin Dynasty. The last state of the Three Kingdoms, the State of Wu, went with history.
The Western Jin Dynasty destroyed Wu because it unified China at a not very high military cost, and Yang Hu was indispensable to attack. Attacking the heart first, carefully preparing not to fight an uncertain battle, and encountering good talents are the three magic weapons proposed by Yang Hu to attack Wu. After Eastern Wu was pacified, Emperor Wu of Jin said with tears at the celebration banquet: "This sheep is too Fu Zhigong. "It's true! However, Yang Hu was already ancient, and he did not see the day when the whole country would be unified.