After the Rebellion of the Eight Kings of the Western Jin Dynasty, Sima Rui established the Eastern Jin Dynasty in the south. There are two roads left for the great families of the north:
First, follow Sima Rui to the south. In doing so, there are the Langya Wang clan, the Chen Junxie clan, the Yingchuan Yu clan and other families.
Second, stay in the north and keep the foundation. There are Qinghe Cui clan, Fanyang Lu clan, Duling Wei clan and other families who do this.
This multiple choice question is really difficult to choose. Most of the Guanzhong clans felt that there was still a chance for the north to recover, so they stuck to the north. After all, their own temples and all kinds of real estate are all in the north, and the school district houses have also been bought, so why do you have so much courage?
Besides, Sima Rui, the king of Langya, had too little communication with the Guanzhong clan, so could he have better treatment after going south? This is a big problem. Therefore, many guanzhong clans have chosen to stay in Guanzhong. During Webster is one of them.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="65" >, Wei Rui's great-grandfather Wei Hua, is a kaleidoscope. </h1>
Among them, the famous Southern Liang general Wei Rui was born in the Duling Wei family, which is the Famous Wei family in Xi'an. His ancestor Wei Xian was a chancellor during the reign of Emperor Xuan of the Western Han Dynasty and a famous Confucian.
In the period of the Five Hu and Sixteen Kingdoms, because the Duling Wei clan did not choose to move south, they had to join the Wuhu countries like other great tribes.
For example, Wei Zhong, who worked for Former Qin, Wei Rui's great-grandfather Wei Hua, was Wei Zhong's son. After the fall of Former Qin, Wei Hua had nowhere to go, so he had to open the kaleidoscope mode.
I have to say that Wei Hua is definitely an exquisite person.
First of all, Wei Hua worked for Former Qin in his early years, and as a result, Former Qin was defeated by the Eastern Jin Dynasty in the Battle of Shuishui, and he surrendered to the Eastern Jin Dynasty along the way.
Secondly, Wei Hua stayed in the Eastern Jin Dynasty for a while, and due to the unpleasant life of the little life, after all, the time of the southern crossing was too late, and he was ostracized by other scholars. Therefore, Wei Hua took tens of thousands of displaced people from Xiangyang with him to defect to Yao Xing of Later Qin. In Later Qin, Wei Hua rose all the way to the rank of Zhongshu Ling and Situ.
Moreover, after Liu Yu represented the Northern Expedition of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, he killed all the way to Chang'an and destroyed Later Qin. When Wei Hua saw that the situation was not right, he simply surrendered to Liu Yu. After that, Wei Hua was appointed as the Governor of Yongzhou, assisting Liu Yu's son Liu Yizhen in guarding Guanzhong.
As a result, the ministers in charge of the town guard were in civil unrest, and Liu Yizhen fled in a hurry. Hu Xia's Helian Bobo saw the opportunity to decisively move south and capture Chang'an, so Wei Hua transformed himself and became an official of Hu Xia.
Just ask you if Wei Hua is a kaleidoscope? Before and after the Former Qin, Eastern Jin, Later Jin, Liu Song, Hu Xia and other regimes, surviving in the chaotic world is really a technical work. So as the great-grandson of Kaleidoscope Wei Hua, how did Wei Rui behave?
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="64" > Second, Wei Rui is a person with a big picture view. </h1>
Wei Rui's great-grandfather Wei Hua was exquisite in all directions, and as a result, he was spurned by the whole clan. Therefore, Wei Rui's grandfather Wei Xuan was so frightened that he did not dare to work for Hu Xia, and he was so angry that Helian Bobo directly slaughtered Wei Xuan.
After Hu Xia was destroyed, Duling Weishi once again put the southward migration on the agenda. Because the Southern Dynasty was gaining momentum under the leadership of the Liu Song Dynasty, Wei Xuan's two sons, Wei Zuzheng and Wei Zugui, both chose to go south to join the Liu Song Dynasty. Among them, Wei Zugui was Wei Rui's biological father.
Since Wei Rui's family was the leader of the clan, Wei Rui's uncle and father both received official positions when they arrived in the Southern Dynasty Liu Song. In particular, his uncle Wei Zugui served as the taishou of various counties in the Southern Dynasty many times.
And Wei Zugui regarded Wei Rui as his own and attached great importance to his talents. Therefore, Under the support of his uncle, Wei Rui left Liu Song early. In the Liu Song and Xiao Qi dynasties, Wei Rui's promotion history was quite ordinary, and there was not much drama.
However, from three things, we can see that Wei Rui is a person with a big picture view.
First thing: Wei Rui belongs to the kind of people who are drunk and awake.
At that time, the extravagance of the Southern Dynasty was prevalent, and corruption and bribery basically became a trend. When Wei Rui's cousin Du Youwen served as the Assassin of Liang Prefecture, Wei Rui followed him to become an official.
Liangzhou has a lot of money, so the officials who come here will basically be corrupt and pervert the law. But Wei Rui is an exception, he never does corrupt things, and is known for his honesty and honesty.
The second thing: Wei Rui cleverly escaped the disaster.
Yuan Shu, the assassin of Yongzhou, felt that Wei Rui was a powerful role, so he made Wei Rui the chief of the state, equivalent to the secretary of the provincial governor. However, it didn't take long for Wei Rui to discover that Yuan Had intentions of rebelling against Emperor Ming of Song.
In order to avoid disaster, Wei Rui decisively gave up the good opportunity to work at the leader's side and asked to be transferred to Yicheng County. It was precisely because of this personnel transfer that Wei Rui did not mix with Yuan Yuan's rebellious activities and thus escaped a disaster.
The third thing: Wei Rui once again transferred to avoid disaster.
After that, Xiao Qi replaced Liu Song, and Wei Rui naturally followed Xiao Daocheng. Here in Xiao Qi, Wei Rui achieved all the way to the general of the Right Army.
At this time, Wei Rui was not young, and there was no problem in retiring smoothly according to the reason. However, in the later period of Xiao Qi, Wei Rui caught up with the civil unrest in the imperial court, and he knew that continuing to stay in the court would only be involved in internal disputes, so he took the initiative to apply to become the Taishou of Shangyong County.
From these 3 things, we can see that Wei Rui is a very unique person. Although he started at the end of the world, he contained the heart of the universe and could see the changes in the situation under the world at a glance. In the absence of the ability to change the situation, Wei Rui had no choice but to choose Mingzhe to protect himself. It can be said that smart people do this.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="63" > third, Wei Rui selected Xiao Yan, the Emperor of Liangwu, and made an immortal contribution to Southern Liang. </h1>
At the age of 59, Wei Rui found that Xiao Qi was already in danger, and there were forces everywhere to resist Xiao Baojuan. Jiankang City is in danger of being conquered at any time.
At this time, if Wei Rui did not have the ambition to annex the world, he must find a suitable backer. Wei Rui observed a circle and felt that Chen Xianda and Cui Huijing, who had started the army, were not in the climate.
However, he could see at a glance that Yongzhou Assassin Shi Xiaoyan was a person who could achieve great things. Therefore, when Xiao Yan took the throne to raise an army, he took the initiative to contact Xiao Yan of Yongzhou, which greatly increased Xiao Yan's confidence and had the ambition to annex the world.
Because Wei Rui made great contributions in the process of the establishment of Southern Liang, Emperor Wu of Liang made him a tingwei and a duliangzi. After that, he was renamed as The Assassin of Yuzhou, Taishou of Liyang County, and Yongchang County. If it goes on like this, Wei Rui, who is over sixty years old, can sit and wait for retirement, then his story will not be so exciting. But two major events soon after, Wei Rui's name will go down in history.
The first thing, in the Battle of Hefei, Wei Rui showed his might.
When serving as the Assassin of Yuzhou, Wei Rui had repelled the Northern Wei army from the south. After that, Emperor Wu of Liang planned the Northern Expedition, so he sent Xiao Hong, the king of Linchuan, as his commander, and Wei Ruidu oversaw the northern expedition.
At the beginning of the Northern Expedition, Liang Daogen attacked the city of Xiaodanang and planned to go back to the whole army and fight again. Wei Rui found that there were millions of people lined up outside the city, and concluded that they were the most elite troops in the city, and as long as this force was defeated quickly, it would not be a problem to take Xiao Dan City. As a result, as Wei Rui had expected, Xiao Dan city was conquered the next day.
Soon after, Wei Rui's army came to the city of Hefei. The Right Army Sima Hu Jingluo had been fighting for a long time, but it had no effect at all. After Wei Rui came, he built a weir on the Feishui River, and then drove the warship to the city of Hefei.
Northern Wei hurriedly sent 50,000 troops to support, and the Southern Liang army was in chaos, hoping to apply for reinforcements. Only Wei Rui was calm and self-assured, feeling that it was too late to apply for reinforcements now, so he led his troops to take the initiative to attack, and even defeated the Northern Wei reinforcements.
As a result, at this stall, the weir on the fat water was destroyed by the Northern Wei army, and the Southern Liang army trembled again, planning to withdraw. At this time, Wei Rui calmly stabilized the army again, and by the way, he saved the.
Ruiqi Fighting Ship, Gao and Hefei City, etc., are facing each other on all sides. The Wei people were poor and wept with sorrow. Rui's attacking equipment was complete, the weir was full, and the Wei rescuers were useless. Wei Shou oversaw the battle of Du Yuanlundeng, and the crossbow was killed, and the city collapsed. More than 10,000 people were captured, tens of thousands of cattle and horses, and ten houses were filled with silk, and they were rewarded by the army. --- Book of Liang
After stabilizing the three armies, Wei Rui built a battleship as high as the hefei city wall, and when the fertilizer water rose, he stormed Hefei. The Northern Wei defenders were all blind, and they had never seen such a game. Hefei was thus conquered by Wei Rui.
In the Battle of Hefei, Wei Rui was able to stabilize the morale of the army twice and adjust the relationship between his generals. After conquering the city of Hefei, he was still able to take the spoils of war without any, and gave them all to his men, which was really admirable!
The second thing, the Battle of Zhong Li, Wei Rui was famous all over the world.
If the Battle of Hefei is just Wei Rui's small test of the bull knife, then the Battle of Zhong Li is an important battle that Wei Rui is famous in history.
After the defeat at the Battle of Hefei, Northern Wei was quite unhappy, so he sent Wang Yuanying of Zhongshan, the general Yang Dayan of Pingdong, and the general Xiao Baoyu of Zhendong to divide the troops into three routes and jointly besiege Zhong to leave the city. The Northern Wei army was huge, claiming to have a million people, but in fact there were at least 400,000 or so.
Within the city, there were only 3,000 defenders of Shi Changyizhi in Northern Xuzhou. At this moment of war, Emperor Wu of Liang decisively sent Cao Jingzong to lead an army of 200,000 to the rescue. Unfortunately, this cargo was not powerful, and he planned to grab the credit alone, but he encountered a storm, resulting in heavy casualties to the Southern Liang army.
At this time, Wei Rui was once again entrusted with a heavy responsibility, departing from Hefei and going to the front line to provide support. It took Wei Rui only 10 days to rush to the front line and join forces with Cao Jingzong. Since then, the famous scene of history has come:
First of all, Feng Daogen built a camp near the Northern Wei camp overnight. Wei Rui also sent people to dig trenches and lay out roadblocks overnight, which frightened the Wei army.
Secondly, the famous Northern Wei general Yang Dayan was not convinced, and came with more than 10,000 cavalry to challenge, and no one could stop him. After Wei Rui analyzed the situation, he connected the chariots, and when Yang Dayan's army came, Wei Rui surrounded them with chariots, and then let the soldiers take out their crossbows and shoot out in a salvo, so the Wei army was defeated and suffered heavy casualties, and even Yang Dayan himself was shot with an arrow.
Moreover, Yuanying learned that Yang Dayan had suffered a loss, and he was even more unconvinced of Wei Rui. Without saying a word, wei Rui was like a Zhuge Liang, sitting on a small car, calmly commanding the battle, and defeating Yuan Ying's team many times.
In the end, Wei Rui took up his old business and built a large ship to take advantage of the surge in Huai Shui to attack the Wei army on ShaoyangZhou. After that, it attacked with fire and burned down an important passage for the Wei army: two pontoon bridges.
Rui knotted the car for Chen, the big eyes gathered to ride around it, Rui with a strong crossbow 2,000 hours a day, the hole armor pierced, killing and injuring many people. Yagua runs through the right arm with big eyes, and the big eyes retreat. Ming Dan, Ying Zi Shuai came to fight, Rui took the Su Mu You, held the white horn Ruyi to the army, a day of counting, Ying Nai retreated. Wei Shi came to attack the city at night, and the rain gathered, and Rui Zi asked him to go down to the city to avoid arrows, but Rui was not allowed; the army was shocked by rui in the city and screamed, Nai Ding. --- "Zizhi Tongjian"
The morale of the Southern Liang army was greatly boosted as a result, while the Northern Wei army panicked. Under the bold command of Wei Rui, the Southern Liang army attacked Northern Wei, drowning and beheading more than 200,000 Wei troops, and more than 50,000 prisoners. The loot is even more numerous. Since then, the prestige of Wei Tiger has spread throughout the Northern Wei Dynasty. In this year, Wei Rui was 65 years old and was awarded the title of Marquis of Yongchang County by Emperor Wu of Liang for his merits.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="55" > Summary: Wei Rui's record laid the stability of the Southern Dynasty for nearly half a century. </h1>
It can be said that the Battle of Zhong Li made the southern liang, which was troubled internally and externally, finally straighten its backbone. In the past, when Emperor Wen of Song Liu Yilong was on the Northern Expedition, he was beaten by Tuoba Tao of Northern Wei and abandoned his armor, and he almost lost his country. Since then, there have been few cases of victory in the war between the Southern Dynasty and the Northern Dynasty.
The battle of Zhong Li that Wei Rui won this time can be regarded as a bad breath for the Southern Dynasty. Emperor Wu of Liang also had the confidence to sit firmly in Jiangshan for 48 years, bringing a rare period of peace to the south.
As for the Northern Wei Dynasty, it was also because of the defeat at the Battle of Zhong Li that internal contradictions became more acute. Coupled with the risks brought about by the Sinicization reform, it eventually led to the Decline of the Northern Wei Dynasty.
References: Book of Liang, Zizhi Tongjian