When Yang Hu was seriously ill, his boss asked himself who could take his place, and Yang Hu felt that Du Pre was a young man who could do it, so he let Du Pre replace him. Later, Yang Hu died, and Du Pre began to prepare for the annihilation of Wu.
Du Pre had a nickname called "Du Wuku", the character Yuan Kai, Jingzhao is a native of present-day Chang'an County, Shaanxi, and his father and grandfather were all high officials in the imperial court. Under the careful guidance of his father, Du Pre has been very ambitious since he was a child and is a person with great ambitions. He also liked to read, was very proficient in scripture, etiquette, calendar, law, arithmetic and engineering, and was an all-round talent, so he was nicknamed "Du Wuku".
After the establishment of the Western Jin Dynasty, he served as The Yin of Henan and the Duzhi Shangshu. Although Du Pre was a scholar, he knew a lot and knew a lot, especially in military strategy.
Remove the blocking stones
When Du Pre had just begun to take office, he unexpectedly and suddenly launched an attack on Zhang Zheng, who was defending the border of the State of Wu, and Zhang Zheng was caught off guard, and the first battle was a complete success and occupied Xiling. Xiling is now Yichang, Hubei, and Du predicted that Zhang Zheng would lose the battle and would definitely hide this matter, so Du Pre deliberately escorted all the captured prisoners of war to Jianye, which is today's Nanjing. Deliberately let Lord Wu know.
Sure enough, Sun Hao was furious when he knew! He transferred Zhang Zheng away. Zhang Zheng was replaced by Liu Xian. Liu Xian was a nest of waste, so Du Pre easily removed a blocking stone.
The six-way cutting of Wu is like a broken bamboo
In November of the fifth year of Xianning (279), Emperor Wu of Jin issued an order to attack Eastern Wu! Jiangsu, Anhui, and Bashu arranged six large armies, led by six generals Sima Xian, Wang Hun, Wang Rong, Hu Fen, Du Xian, and Wang Rong! A total of more than 200,000 people and horses, east and west, land and water, very spectacular. Wu Jun couldn't take care of it this time, he didn't know how to arrange how to fight, it was Gu Tou who couldn't take care of the tail.
In the first month of the following year, Wang Mao (jun) led 80,000 Bashu water troops to charge directly at Eastern Wu with warships. Wu Guo hurriedly ordered that the dangerous place in the middle of the river be sealed and this iron chain be hung. Stop them, and then make an iron cone and put it in the river to fix it, and tie their boat. Thinking of using this method to stop the Jin forces. Wang Mao calmly coped, arranged dozens of oversized rafts, tied scarecrows to them, and put armor on the scarecrows, so he made a fool of himself and fooled Wu Jun.
He also selected the soldiers who could swim and dive, and followed the big raft first, so that the iron cones in the river were all tied to the raft and carried away by the raft. Then Wang Mao tied a long and thick torch, poured oil on it, and when he encountered the iron chain, he lit a fire and burned it vigorously, and it did not take long for the iron chain to burn off. In this way, Wang Mao broke through the blockade line of Eastern Wu. After landing ashore, it occupied many cities and pools, and attacked them until Xiling. Killed Liu Xian.
At this time, Du Pre arranged for Zhou Zhi to lead eight hundred warriors to cross the river at the deepest night to raid Lexiang, which is now Songzi, Hubei, and then planted many flags on the nearby Ba Mountain and lit torches, so that after the Wu army saw it, it would think that the jin army had flown across the Yangtze River and would flee with the wind. Soon, the Jin army conquered Jiangling, and the news spread throughout Jiangdong, and many states and counties east of the Yangtze River surrendered one by one. In order to hasten the final victory and deploy a new advance, Du Pre convened a military conference.
But at this time, the bad old man Jia Chong and other conservatives came out to obstruct, here and there is no way, there are many farts, saying that the strong enemy that has existed for a hundred years cannot be eliminated at once, and now it is spring again, the time when it is most likely to get sick, it is simply a fight at the end of the winter.
Du Pre-retorted: "You dead old man, you shut me up, you have fought a war, there is a general in the Yan state, Le Yi, and he defeated the powerful State of Qi by relying on the Battle of Jixi." Now our warriors, one by one, are screaming, the morale of today's warriors is high, how you look at it is not OK, this battle is like splitting bamboo, the first few sections are split. The rest of the bamboo will naturally crack, and there is no obstacle. What are you waiting for? Du Pre said exactly what the idiom means "like a broken bamboo". When the generals heard this analogy, they were full of confidence and determined to take advantage of the victory and pursue.
The State of Wu perished and the whole country was unified
What Du Pre said was indeed true, in February of this year, General Wang Ji took the city of Xiakou Wuchang and the city of Broken Wave, and the army surrendered one after another. Wang Mao led his troops and defeated Wu Cheng Xiang Zhang Ti at Banqiao. By March, Wang Rong's boat division had arrived at Jianye City, and the flag was covered by the sun, and the sound of killing was tremendous.
Wu Guo was very frightened, many soldiers dropped their weapons and fled from the battlefield, Wu Lord saw that the general situation had gone, and there was nothing he could do, so he had to tie his hands and bring a coffin to Wang Mao's military gate to surrender. Wang Mao personally untied him, ordered the coffin to be burned, and treated him with courtesy, and he received the Wu state map on behalf of the Western Jin dynasty. At that time, there were four states, forty-three counties, 523,000 households, 230,000 soldiers and a population of 2.3 million men and women. As a result, the Western Jin Dynasty unified the whole country.