preface:
In order to improve the wisdom of the world, the Ming Dynasty literary scholar Feng Menglong wrote a strange book "Wisdom Tank". A story is included in the "Bing Zhi Chapter". It is said that the famous general Wang Zhen was evil at the end of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and fought with Later Qin in Weishui, he ordered the soldiers to hide in the cabin, and the Later Qin army saw the ship speeding forward, and could not see that there were people on the ship who were controlling, and shouted magic about this, because it was the help of the gods. After Wang Zhenwei led his army to Weiqiao, he ordered people to untie the cables, and these ships were washed away by the current. Wang Zhen evil told his subordinates that this place was thousands of miles away from his hometown, and now that the ships had been washed away, the only thing he could do was to kill the enemy bravely, and if he won, he would be able to make a name for himself, and if he failed, he would die in his hometown. Inspired by Wang Meng's death and the afterlife, the soldiers were full of morale and finally defeated the strong enemy. In fact, the "highlight moment" of Wang Zhen evil is far more than this, the founding monarch of the Liu Song regime, known as the god of war, Liu Yu, who is worth dominating the world by force, can create an immortal inheritance, among which there is a great merit of Wang Zhen evil.
The young man has a legend and is appreciated by Liu Yu
The Book of Song records that Wang Zhen evil was born in Chang'an, his parents because they hated his birthday is not good, he fostered him in the home of distant relatives, Wang Zhen evil's grandfather is the former Qin dynasty prime minister Wang Meng, he was very surprised to see this child, saying that he was born on the fifth day of the first month of May, this unlucky day, and is not a mortal in the future, so he named it Zhen Evil. When Wang Zhen evil was thirteen years old, the scenery of Former Qin was no longer in guanzhong, and Wang Zhen evil was displaced everywhere. During this period, he read military books and armed his mind with knowledge, and later Wang Zhen evil followed his uncle and returned to the Eastern Jin Dynasty to be appreciated by the important minister Liu Yu, and was appointed to join the army as a former department, thus beginning his brilliant career as a horseman. In the fifth year of Yixi, Liu Yu attacked Southern Yan, and When Wang Zhenxi fought against Lu Xun, he helped Liu Yu destroy Lu Xun's outstanding military achievements, so he was given the fifth rank of Bolu County. At that time, Liu Yi, who was also one of the main generals of the Beifu Army, was not willing to succumb to Liu Yu and secretly accumulated strength in an attempt to control the government.
Use disguise to confuse Liu Yi into marching into Jiangling
He had long divided Jiangling and was a very powerful general, and although Liu Yu knew that he had ill intentions, he had always been jealous of his strength and waited for the right time to take care of him. When Liu Yi fell ill in the eighth year of Yixi, he asked the imperial court to transfer his cousin Yanzhou to Assassinate Liu Fan and transfer him to Jingzhou himself. Liu Yu learned the news and decided to take this opportunity to cut liu Yi. Liu Yuming pretended to support Liu Yi, but secretly wrote to Emperor An of Jin to kill Liu Yi, displaying Liu Yi's many crimes of treason, and pointing out that Liu Fan was also an accomplice, and when Liu Fan entered the dynasty, he was killed on the spot. Subsequently, with Wang Zhen evil as the vanguard, he marched into Jiangling under the banner of King Liu Fan and led a hundred ships to attack Liu Yi. Wang Zhen evil traveled day and night, carrying the banner of Liu Fan along the way, claiming that it was Yanzhou soldiers who went west, Liu Yu's secrecy work was done well, and Wang Zhen evil was also very good at disguise, so he blinded Liu Yi and had no defense against it. Half a month later, Wang Zhen led his army to Yuzhangkou, which was only 20 miles away from Jiangling.
Surprise soldiers burned down the city gate and attacked Gangneung
Wang Zhen evilly ordered the whole army to go ashore and attack Jiangling as fast as possible. When he reached the distance of five miles from Jiangling, he was recognized by Liu Yi's subordinate Zhu Xianzhi, who saw that the Yanzhou soldiers who claimed to be reinforcements were carrying siege equipment, and it was obvious that they had bad intentions, Zhu Xianzhi analyzed it a little, detected the disaster, and while ordering the sergeant to stick to the city gate, he rushed to report to Liu Yi. Seeing that the disguise was about to be discovered, Wang Zhen evil, in order to seize the opportunity, decisively divided his troops into two roads, attacked all the way in a strange posture, and took advantage of the wind to set fire to the east and south gates of the outer city of Jiangling. He led a main force to besiege Jincheng, the inner city of Gangneung. At that time, there were more than 3,000 troops of Liu Yi in Jincheng, and these people were well-trained and well-equipped, and they were one of the most effective troops under Liu Yi's command. Wang Zhen evil and Liu Yi's elite fought, but the enemy army was strong and occupied favorable terrain, so that Wang Zhen evil could not be attacked for a long time, and the fierce battle between the two armies was not known for half a day.
Digging a hole in the ground and bursting into the city shows the true color of the fierce general
Since the strong attack had no effect, Wang Zhen evil decided to outsmart it. While attacking the city with a more violent posture, holding the enemy main force from the front, he sent troops to secretly dig holes under the city walls. After digging through the city wall, Wang Zhen led the crowd to break into Jincheng to meet the enemy's short soldiers, this battle was very fierce, it can be said that the corpses everywhere were bleeding into a river, Wang Zhen was a vicious soldier, holding a weapon to slash left and right, showing the true colors of a generation of fierce generals. In this vicious battle, Wang Zhen was hit by five swords in his body, and the sheath of the sword in his hand was broken. At a time when the two armies were fighting inextricably, Wang Zhen evil decided not only to slash and kill, but also to use psychological warfare to disintegrate the morale of the enemy, so he fought while ordering the soldiers to shout, saying that Liu Yu's army would soon arrive, Liu Yi's end was coming, what awaited you was a dead end, and now surrendering can still save your life. As soon as Liu Yi's soldiers heard this, their morale began to weaken, and they all collapsed backwards.
Achieving brilliant results was given liu Yu's weight
Liu Yi saw that the general trend had gone, and his despair in his heart finally went to the north of Jiangling City, and the Herding Cow Buddhist Temple hanged himself, and waited until 20 days later, Liu Yu led the main force of the Jin army to arrive, and this battle Wang Zhen evil led the vanguard army, destroyed Liu Yipan's old nest that had been operating for many years, and achieved brilliant results, which made Liu Yu very surprised, and became more and more serious about Wang Zhen evil, and Wang Zhen's evil power shocked the whole army and became Liu Yu's right-hand man. In the eleventh year of Yixi, Wang Zhen evil was ordered to attack Xiangyang, and Sima Xiu cut it according to this, and Wang Zhen evil was like a bamboo all the way, and it was effortless to suppress it. By this time, all the local forces in the Eastern Jin Dynasty had been cut off by Liu Yu, and Wang Zhenxian was also moved by the world because of his great military achievements. In the fourteenth year of the hong dynasty, the Later Qin monarch Yao Xing died, and his son Yao Hong, in order to succeed to the throne, killed his brothers in the middle of the dynasty, and Later Qin was in turmoil, and Later Qin had always been a great threat to the Eastern Jin Dynasty, so Liu Yu decided to take the opportunity to go north to Later Qin, and the story told in "Wisdom Tank" occurred at this stage.
After doing the vanguard conquest, Qin was invincible
In August of the twelfth year of Yixi, Liu Yu appointed Wang Zhen as the general of Long Jun, and together with the fierce general Tan Daoji as the vanguard, he sent several large armies to march from the Huai River to Luoyang in five routes. Before leaving, Liu Yu's general Liu Muzhi told Wang Zhen that the imperial court had entrusted Guanzhong to him and advised him not to disappoint the imperial court. Wang Zhenxian replied that he would not conquer Xianyang and vowed not to cross the Yangtze River, and made a joke, saying that if he pacified the Three Qins, the lord could not forget the reward. Subsequently, Wang Zhenxi led his troops all the way to the west, and when they reached the Later Qin domain, they were invincible and invincible, and the Later Qin army was intimidated by Wang Zhenxi's prestige, and in the course of many cities he passed, the Later Qin defenders were all frightened, and some even fell without a fight. The vanguard army advanced very smoothly, passing through Xiangcheng, Xuchang, and Hu prison passes, and directly pushing under Luoyang City. The shadow of the so-called tree of people's life, the city guard general Yao Huan, has long heard of Wang Zhen's evil notoriety, and his achievements in blocking the killing of the gods and Buddhas along the way have given Yao Huan a great shock, he knows that he is not the opponent of Wang Zhen evil, and he will not have his own good fruit to eat, so he takes the initiative to surrender Kaicheng, and Wang Zhen evil can take Luoyang without bloodshed.
The confrontation between Bing Fa Tong Guan and the enemy encountered a food crisis
In fact, Liu Yu's original order was to take Luoyang, let the vanguard armies wait in place to join the main force, and then act together, and Wang Zhen saw that the morale of the Jin army was high, and the chaos in Later Qin was getting worse, so he immediately made a decision and attacked Tongguan, which was empty of defenses. Tongguan is located in the lower reaches of the Wei River, the gateway to the Later Qin capital xi'an, which has been a place of contention for soldiers since ancient times. After all, the safety of the regime was at stake, and at that time, Later Qin invested a large number of troops in Tongguan and sent Yao Shao to lead 50,000 elite troops to hold firm. Wang Zhenxi and Tan Daoji fought together, but after all, the Jin army was on an expedition, the troops were insufficient, the lone army was deep, and the logistical support could not keep up in time, so there was no way to deal with Tongguan for a while. The two armies engaged in a protracted confrontation at Tongguan, and the Later Qin "home" battle took the advantage, the Jin army could not hold out first, and the grain and grass in the army were consumed. When it rained overnight, northern Wei also took the opportunity to harass the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and the Eastern Jin Dynasty had no time to take care of the expeditionary forces that invaded the hinterland of Later Qin.
When the opportunity was made, it immediately took a detour to attack the capital of Qin
In the difficult situation of internal and external affairs, Wang Zhenxi knew that only he could save himself, and the most urgent thing was to solve the problem of the survival of the army, so he ordered the whole army to raise grain on the spot, and personally did the ideological work of the local people and mobilized them to donate grain. Shi Zai, because Wang Zhen evil was able to raise grain well, the common people rushed to deliver grain, and the grain crisis of the army was lifted. In August of the thirteenth year of Yixi, Liu Yu led a large army to Tongguan, and although Wang Zhenxi killed Yao Shao at this time, Tongguan was still impregnable. Liu Yu asked for a battle not to fall into distress, Wang Zhen evil to conduct a thorough investigation of the enemy situation and the surrounding environment, he suggested that Liu Yu directly bypass Tongguan, order the water army to go west along the Weishui River, and attack Xi'an with the army, Liu Yu felt that it was reasonable to adopt this suggestion. Wang Zhen evil also took the initiative to ask for battle, led the water army into Weishui, and landed at Weiqiao as planned, as described in the "Wisdom Tank", he ordered the destruction of ships to motivate the soldiers to move forward.
Sheng Ji had a clear understanding of himself for a while
After the battle began, Wang Zhen's evil body and soldiers charged forward, and the soldiers were deeply affected, and in the absence of a way to retreat, they finally defeated the Weiqiao garrison led by the Qin general Yao Pi. Although Yao Hong personally led the troops to support, but it was also to no avail, the Tongguan defenders heard that Yao Hong's troops were defeated, and they actually scattered, the Jin army continued to reinforce Xi'an, Yao Hong saw that the general trend had gone, led the army out of the city to surrender, and Later Qin declared its demise. After Liu Yu entered Xi'an, his favor and praise for Wang Zhen evil overflowed into words, saying that with Wang Zhen evil's own hegemony, he would surely succeed. Wang Zhenxiao made his first contribution in the Battle to Destroy Qin and entered the heyday of his military career, and after the war, Wang Zhenxiao was promoted to the rank of General of Conquest. Wang Zhen evil's prestige was extremely famous, attracting everyone's attention, as a generation of famous generals, he knew the truth that the bird did his best to hide his bow, in order to avoid suspicion, he did not hesitate to "blacken himself" and try his best to show his greed for money.
End
At the time of the harvest in Guanzhong, Wang Zhen evil wantonly amassed wealth in the local area. At that time, the forces in the Jiangnan region were very jealous of Wang Zhen evil, and Shen Tianzi told Liu Yujin that wang Zhen evil could not be trusted. Liu Yu began to be disgusted and afraid of Wang Zhen, who was in charge of military power and had a prominent reputation, and coupled with the provocation of the traitor, Liu Yu's suspicion of Wang Zhen's evil became deeper and deeper. With liu yu's support, the Jiangnan power group represented by Shen Tianzi was even more fearless and even conspired to kill Wang Zhenxi. In the fourteenth year of Yixi, Shen Tianzi invited Wang Zhen evil to the camp to discuss, thus booby-trapping Wang Zhen evil, and a generation of famous generals Wang Zhen evil fell to his death on the spot, ending his 46-year-old life, which was really unbearable. However, Wang Zhen evil relies on his outstanding merits, and history will leave him a glorious stroke and will also give him a fair evaluation.
[References: "Wise Men", "Book of Song"]