Romance of the Three Kingdoms is a novel about the Three Kingdoms period that was well received by many people. The Romance of the Three Kingdoms takes the history of the Three Kingdoms period at the end of the Han Dynasty as the main line, and combines many wild histories including the content of Pei Song's annotations, but also makes relatively large changes to the images of some real historical figures. Big people like Zhou Yu, Zhuge Liang, and Liu Bei needless to say, the following xiaobian wants to introduce a "small person" - Song Qian.
In the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Song Qian was shot to death by an arrow from Li Dian, but it was not in history. Song Qian can be regarded as the elder of the Jiangdong Group, participating in the elimination of Liu Xuan, the second "Battle of Hefei" and the "Battle of Yiling", the following small editor will talk about this character.
Song Qian has no biography in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, and even the small biography attached to the biography of others does not have it, probably because of this reason, Song Qian's popularity in later generations is not very high, and he was prematurely written to death by the Romance of the Three Kingdoms. However, the frequency of Song Qian's appearance in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms is not very low, and it is scattered in the biographies of other characters.
Song Qian's earliest appearance should be in the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Wushu Taishi Ci Biography", when it was still in the period of the chaos of the masses, Sun Ce did not leave Yuan Shu, but entered Jiangdong as Yuan Shu's part. His opponent was Liu Xuan, the Assassin of Yangzhou, who blockaded the Yangtze River and resisted Yuan Shu. Liu Sui was a native of Donglai County, Qingzhou, and there were many Qingzhou people who were attached to Liu Sui, including Tai Shi Ci, who was also a Donglai person.
Tai Shi Ci was not reused by Liu Xuan, but as a scout. When Tai Shi Ci went out to investigate, he happened to meet Sun Ce. At that time, there was only one cavalry behind Tai Shi Ci, and there were thirteen generals behind Sun Ce, and the historical records recorded: "All Han Dang, Song Qian, and Huang Gai Generation." Of course, this incident actually reflects the bravery of Tai Shi Ci, who went forward to fight with Sun Ce and seized Sun Ce's helmet. Later, armies from both sides arrived, and the skirmish did not expand further.
However, from these records, two pieces of information can be drawn, the first Song Qian is the elder figure of the Jiangdong Group, at least in the period of Sun Ce's founding, perhaps Sun Jian's former part; the second Song Qian's status is quite OK, juxtaposed with Han Dang and Huang Gai.
Song Qian's reappearance was already in the second "Battle of Hefei" in the twentieth year of Jian'an (that is, 215 AD), at this time Song Qian's seniority was relatively old, but because there was no personal biography, his resume in the Jiangdong clique was not clear at this time. As in "The Biography of Tai Shi Ci", Song Qian here is also used as a background board for others (after all, it is someone else's biography), which sets off at least two characters - Zhang Liao and Pan Zhang.
In the second "Battle of Hefei", the main general of Cao Cao's side was not Zhang Liao, but xue Ti, the protector, but the most eye-catching and popular figure in this battle was undoubtedly Zhang Liao. So much so that when mentioning the second "Battle of Hefei", the first thing people think of is Zhang Liao. Zhang Liao's performance in this campaign was divided into two times, the first was to take advantage of Sun Quan's army's unstable foothold to lead the dead soldiers to attack Sun Quan, which is the so-called "eight hundred and one hundred thousand"; and the other was to pursue When Sun Quan withdrew, he also broke the bridge of Xiaoyaojin, and once trapped Sun Quan in danger.
According to the record of the "Spring and Autumn of the Emperor Xian", Zhang Liao and Sun Quan also had a face-to-face interview at that time, but they did not know Sun Quan, so they missed the opportunity. Song Qian's appearance in the historical data is in the "Biography of Pan Zhang" when Zhang Liao was "eight hundred and one hundred thousand".
At that time, Zhang Liao's performance can be said to be like entering a no-man's land, "killing dozens of people and beheading two generals", and among these "two generals" was Chen Wu in the "Twelve Tiger Ministers of JiangBiao". In addition, there were wounded and repulsed, xu sheng, who was also a "twelve tiger minister", was injured and lost his weapon (one said that it was the tooth banner in the army, and the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" was copied incorrectly), And Song Qian's situation was not very clear, but he could not resist Zhang Liao, and he and Xu Sheng were defeated. At this time, Pan Zhang,Corp. killed Song Qian and Xu Sheng's routs, which stabilized the situation to a certain extent and protected Sun Quan's safety.
This was followed by the second year of The Shu Han Zhangwu and the first year of the Eastern Wu Huangwu (i.e. 222 AD). At this time, Cao Pi had already replaced the Eastern Han Dynasty to create Cao Wei; Liu Bei also became emperor after the rupture of relations with Cao Wei, and sat on an equal footing with Cao Pi in status, creating a Shu Han against Cao Wei; at this time, Sun Quan's situation was more embarrassing, and he did not claim the title of emperor.
First of all, he did not have the status of Chan Rang and Liu Clan of the Han Emperor Liu Xie, and the legitimacy was not enough, but the most important thing was the contradiction with Liu Bei. Sun Quan secretly attacked Jingzhou, killed Guan Yu, and defected to Cao Wei, and there must be a war between him and Liu Bei, that is, the "Battle of Yiling".
In the "Battle of Yiling", the Shu Han army had some advantages in the early stages. Liu Bei's former army successively reclaimed the counties of Wu and Zigui in Nan County, and the army reached the boundary of Yiling at the mouth of the gorge. Liu Bei then led the main army into Yiling, but was resisted by Lu Xun, Sun Huan, and others at Yiting and Yidao. In the end, Lu Xun and others used the advantages of the water army to defeat Liu Bei and won the final victory.
This is a reduced version of the "Battle of Yiling", and in general, Liu Bei won first and then lost. In a phase of confrontation between Liu Bei's former army and the Eastern Wu army in Yiling, Eastern Wu also launched some counterattacks, and Song Qian and others attacked the five military camps of Shu Han, "all of which were broken, and beheaded their generals", which was regarded as a victory in a local battle.
After the great victory of the Eastern Wu army, Lu Xun and others continued to pursue and retake Wu County. The borders of shu han and eastern Wu were basically determined after the Battle of Yiling. At that time, Liu Bei was stationed in Yong'an to block Eastern Wu's pursuit, and Xu Sheng, Pan Zhang, Song Qian, and others all thought that they could continue to go deeper west, further expand the results of the battle, or directly capture Liu Bei, or take advantage of the situation to enter Yizhou and complete the so-called "two-point plan for the world" proposed by Gan Ning, Zhou Yu, and others. However, Lu Xun, Zhu Ran, Luo Tong, and others opposed this proposal, believing that they should beware of Cao Pi's attack.
In the end, Sun Quan gave up the war against Shu Han and made peace with Liu Bei. Interestingly, Lu Xun, Zhu Ran, and Luo Tong are all from Jiangdong, Song Qian's place of origin is not very clear, and Xu Sheng and Pan Zhang are both from Jiangbei, which may also reflect to a certain extent some subtle differences between the Jiangdong Group and the Huaisi Group (the political position of some northerners who are not in the Huaisi area can also be regarded as the Huaisi Group) in terms of enterprising and shouye.
All in all, Song Qian was the elder of the Jiangdong clique and participated in many important battles, but most of them became a background board, setting off the bravery of Tai Shi Ci and Zhang Liao; Pan Zhang's response on the battlefield; and Lu Xun's correct control of the situation in Cao Wei, Shu Han, and Eastern Wu. There is only one incident that broke through the Five Tuns of the Shu Han Dynasty, which is a positive record of Song Qian. This may be because of Song Qian's lack of ability, or it may also be because of the lack of personal biography.
Reference: "Three Kingdoms"