Single-handedness in fiction is always a wonderful fragment, whether it is a narrow road meeting in a historical novel, a sergeant lined up, and a general on both sides riding an arm to fight each other. It is also the unity of the two martial arts masters in martial arts novels, and the earth-shattering war is launched. These scenes are often what readers yearn for. To discuss the well-known single-handed case in the history of the Three Kingdoms, we have to mention the Battle of Shentingling, and the novel "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" has come to a story of Tai Shi Ci fighting a small bully. In this single challenge, in addition to the two protagonists Sun Ce and Tai Shi Ci, the thirteen horses have become important supporting roles, these thirteen horses are all elite soldiers, except for the six horses unknown, the other six are Eastern Wu heavy subjects. Five of them were called "Tiger Ministers of the River Table" by the Romance of the Three Kingdoms. The only regret that he was not selected was veteran Song Qian.
The fierce battle between the little overlord and the righteous general was the first battle of the birth of the Wu kingdom
Song Qian, a general of the State of Wu in the Three Kingdoms period, belonged to the "Three Unknown Generals" like Chen Shi. The second year of Chuping (191 AD), this year is destined to be an extraordinary year. The princes of the original Dong Alliance disintegrated under mutual suspicion, and then entered a period of chaos, and the Han Court survived in name only. This year can be described by the four words of thunderbolt on a sunny day for the Sun family, when the lord Sun Jian was unfortunately killed in battle during the conquest of Jingzhou Mu Liu Biao. The Sun family was leaderless, and his nephew Sun Ben led the remnants to be annexed to Yuan Shu. It was not until three years later that his descendants defected to Yuan Shu and returned the old departments, including Song Qian. Yuan Shu can be said to be very appreciative of Sun Ce and sighed: "Make the art have children like Sun Lang, and what hate is it when you die!" Because Sun Ce was in charge of the army, Yuan Shu's generals Qiao Rui and Zhang Xun respected him very much, which made Yuan Shu both shocked and afraid. And Yuan Shu himself was capricious, and his words and untrustworthiness also made Sun Ce very dissatisfied. What caused Yuan Shu a headache was that there was a sworn enemy against him in the rear, and this mortal enemy was Liu Xuan (the Yangzhou zhishou was originally Shouchun, but Shouchun was taken by Yuan Shu, and the two sides ruled across the river, and this pattern did not end until the unification of the Western Jin Dynasty). Sun Ce saw this opportunity to express to Yuan Shu that he was willing to seize Yangzhou for the Gong, and then recruited 30,000 soldiers in Yangzhou to sweep the world for the Ming Gong. Yuan Shu did not care about this, so he dispatched more than a thousand troops to send Sun Ce to pacify Jiangdong. Why would Yuan Shu not care about this matter and let Sun Ce go? First, although Yuan Shu wanted to take the land of Jiangdong, it was difficult. Deeply influenced by games, films and television works, Yuan Shu's territory gives the impression that it is only a little place like Shouchun. In fact, at that time, Yuan Shu had Runan County, Yingchuan County, Henan County, Nanyang County, Jiujiang County, Guangling County, etc., spanning The three prefectures of Yu, Yang, and Xu, and more importantly, the population of Nanyang County at that time was as high as 2.4 million (which was very frightening at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty). A large population means that there are sufficient guarantees for the source of soldiers, taxes, labor and production, and it is also the capital of the world, and although the Jiangdong region is a rich land, the local forces are complex and difficult to conquer (and Liu Sui is based on Qu'a, Wang Lang is in Huiji, and the strategy may not be determined, so Xu Zhi. ）。 Second, Yuan Shu thought that his biggest enemy was Yuan Shao, the eldest brother of Shu, and Cao Cao, as an ally of Yuan Shao, was always a thorn in Yuan Shu's heart, and there was also the presence of Xuzhou Tao Qian's forces. This also allowed Yuan Shu to have no extra energy to deal with Jiangdong. After Sun Ce arrived in Jiangdong, he first sought out his uncle Wu Jing, and then moved his family to Fuling. After everything was ready, he began to cross the river to fight Liu Sui, and this battle was also a great contribution made by Song Qian to sun's foundation. The Chronicle of the Three Kingdoms, the Biography of Tai Shi Ci, records: "Shi Du met a pawn with a pawn. Ce Cong riding thirteen, all Han Dang, Song Qian, and Huang Gai generation also " From this word, it can be inferred that Song Qian was most likely an old minister in Sun Jian's era. Cheng, Huang, and Han were the right-hand men of Sun Jian's era, and they were among the top three in the later "Tiger Ministers of Jiangdong". If Song Qian had come to defect when Sun Ce was crossing the river, there was obviously no such special encounter (refer to Jiang Qin, Zhou Tai, Chen Wu and others who had already defected at this time). After defeating Liu Sui, he accompanied Sun Ce in his southern expedition to the north, and finally unified Jiangdong in the fifth year of Jian'an (200 AD), during which Yuan Shu was proclaimed emperor, and Sun Ce naturally broke away from Yuan Shu and established himself. Presumably, Song Qian and other old ministers were quite emotional, and the unfinished business of the former lord Gongsun Jian was realized in just five years under the hands of Sun Ce, and the Sun clan advanced into the world with the land of Jiangdong. Just when the old ministers were all ready to do a big job, they were mercilessly extinguished by a basin of cold water.
For Song Qian, a group of Huaisi generals, following Sun Ce to pacify Jiangdong was both a risk and an opportunity
In April of the fifth year of Jian'an (200 AD), Sun Ce was assassinated. The Sun family once again had a chaotic situation of leaderlessness, and before his death, Sun Ce designated Sun Quan, who was only fifteen years old, as his successor, and entrusted Zhang Zhao and others to assist him wholeheartedly. After Sun Quan succeeded to the throne, he would face a residual situation of internal and external troubles, and it was precisely because of the assistance of Zhou Yu, Cheng Pu, Song Qian and other Huaisi generals to stabilize the situation. In the eighth year of Jian'an (203 AD), with the efforts of the Huaisi generals, Sun Quan marched on Huangzu and Pingshan Yue to suppress rebels everywhere. At the same time, Sun Quan changed the way Sun Ce suppressed the Shi clan in the past, and began to use some jiangdong Shi clan disciples, such as Gu Yong, Lu Xun and others, who were recruited into the curtain during this period. It also maintained the means of both sides by means of adding officials and promoting knighthoods, marriages, etc., and promulgated policies such as the system of granting land to the emperor, the system of hereditary leadership, and the system of fengyi to safeguard the interests of the Jiangdong Shi clan (Note: The granting of land to the generals of the large clan is to give land to the generals of the large clan to be exempted from taxes, and the tenants occupied by the large clan are exempted from military service. Hereditary leadership system is that after the death of a general, his son may be able to inherit his command of the army and hold important positions such as Zhu Huan, as is the case with the Zhu Yi brothers. The Fengyi system was that the owners of Fengyi used the tax income of their own Fengyi as private income, and after Sun Quan became emperor, the system was gradually replaced by the Fenglu system. But the state of Wu arose because of the first two systems, and then perished because of these two systems).) After experiencing the Battle of Chibi, the situation of the three families of Cao Liu and Sun was formed. In May of the nineteenth year of Jian'an (214 AD), Sun Quan attacked the city of Anhui. Also in the same year Liu Bei captured Yizhou, and the two sides were deadlocked on the Jingzhou issue. The following year, Cao Cao attacked Zhang Lu in the west, and Zhang Lu surrendered. Sun Liu's two families quickly agreed on the condition of dividing Jingzhou equally (i.e., Jiangxia, Changsha, Guiyang belonged to Sun Wu, Nan Commandery, Lingling, and Wuling belonged to Liu Bei). After the agreement was reached, Sun Quan took advantage of Cao Caoyuan's expedition to Hefei with an army of 100,000 in Hanzhong. History said: "The Second Great War of Hefei", this battle was quite ugly for Sun Quan, he personally led an army of 100,000 people to attack the city of Hefei with only 7,000 people, the loss of soldiers will not be more to say, Sun Quan himself was fortunate to have his subordinates desperately resist to kill a bloody road, almost captured alive by Zhang Liao. This battle is also jokingly called by modern netizens as "Zhang Eight Hundred Great Broken Sun 100,000". As Sun Wu's old minister Song Qian's performance in this battle was quite a failure. The Chronicle of the Three Kingdoms, The Biography of Pan Zhang, records: "At the Battle of Hefei, Zhang Liao was dying, the generals were not prepared, Chen Wudou died, and Song Qian and Xu Sheng were all taken away. After Zhang's body was in the back, he galloped in, and the two of them were slashed and humbled and Sheng Bing left. "Because of Chen Wu's death in battle, the whole army was in an uproar, if it were not for Pan Zhang, even if he killed the deserters, perhaps Xu and Song would have followed in Chen Wu's footsteps and died on the battlefield." The defeat at the Second Battle of Hefei also heralded the shattering of the dreams of Huaisi generals to return to the Huaisi region, and also planted a time bomb for Sun Wu. Although this was the first time that Pan, Xu and Song had cooperated, the result was quite disappointing.
After the Second Battle of Hefei, the Huaisi generals seemed to have completed their historical mission, and all that awaited them was to leave the curtain
In October of the twenty-first year of Jian'an (216 AD), Cao Cao took advantage of Sun Quan's defeat at the Second Battle of Hefei and invaded Eastern Wu in the south. The two sides fought a great battle at the mouth of the shukou, and after that, both sides had plans to withdraw their troops. In March of the following year, Sun Quan sent the governor Xu Xiang to ask Cao Cao to surrender, and Cao Cao accepted Sun Quan's request to surrender and re-establish the alliance. Also in the same year, Liu Bei sent Zhang Fei, Ma Chao, and others to march into xiadi. The Battle of Hanzhong officially began, and Sun Quan sat in Jiangdong to watch the outcome of both sides. Finally, in the twenty-fourth year of Jian'an (219 AD), Cao Cao withdrew from Liu Bei's army in Hanzhong and declared victory, which frightened Sun Quan. At this time, Guan Yu, who was sitting in Nan County, launched the Battle of Xiangfan in response to Liu Bei's Northern Expedition. Later, due to the shortage of military food, the rice of Xiangguan was arbitrarily taken, and the contradictions between the two sides broke out (in fact, Sun Quan would still take Jingzhou without this incident). In the end, Lü Meng crossed the river in white and attacked Jingzhou, shimi and the two surrendered, and Guan Yu defeated Maicheng. At the beginning of the following year, he beheaded Guan Yu in Linfeng. At this point, Sun Quan also completed the first step of the strategy on the bed proposed by Lu Su: "The Yangtze River is extreme, according to it, and then build an emperor to seek the world." "But Jingzhou is a top priority for Liu Bei Group." Because Cao Pi claimed that the emperor slowed Liu Bei's recapture of Jingzhou. In the first year of the Shu Han Dynasty (221 AD), Liu Bei led an army to conquer Wu in order to retake Jingzhou. At the beginning of the war, the Shu army was unstoppable, Liu Bei, with Wu Ban and Feng Xi as the vanguard, defeated Li Yi in Wudi, and Liu A's army occupied Zigui. He also sent Ma Liang to the Wuling area to win the support of the local tribal leader Sha Moke, presumably Liu Bei was taking advantage of the influence of Nan County, Wuling, Lingling and other places to prepare to break Wu in one fell swoop. Sun Quan seemed to have anticipated Liu Bei's attack, and soon after receiving news that Liu Bei was proclaimed emperor, Sun Quan moved his base camp to Wuchang and declared himself a vassal to Cao Pi to repair the alliance. After learning that Liu Bei had left Sichuan to attack Wu, he decisively appointed Lu Xun as the governor of Dadu to lead 50,000 soldiers to resist Liu Bei, and at the same time ordered bubu zhen to defend Yiyang to prevent Wuling Wuxi from assisting the Shu army. In order to avoid his sharp edge, Lu Xun entered a tug-of-war between the two sides in order to retreat. In August of the following year, Lu Xun burned the company camp to break the Shu army. As Lu Xun's subordinate general Song Qian's performance in Yiling is remarkable. Judging from Pan Zhang's biography, it is very likely that Pan, Xu, and Song counterattacked the main force commanded by Liu Bei (this point is judging from the fact that Feng Xi was killed by Pan Zhang's men, and the three of them wrote to pursue Liu Bei and capture Shudi, they would only draw this conclusion if they saw Liu Bei fleeing in a daze). It can be said that the Battle of Yiling was the first beautiful cooperation between the three people, and it was also the last connection. Song Qian disappeared from the history books after the Battle of Yiling, but it can be inferred that Song Qian may have died in the war between Cao Pi and the Three Roads of Wu, why do you say so? The Zizhi Tongjian records: "When there will be a great epidemic in the sky, the emperor will summon the armies to return." That is, during this period, a great plague occurred, resulting in the loss of soldiers and soldiers in the Wei and Wu armies (Cao Ren also died in the same year, and the reason is not excluded that he died of infection with the plague). Secondly, in the third year of Huang Wu (224 AD), Cao Pi attacked Wu for the second time. As a connection partner, there is no record of Song Qian in the biographies of Xu Sheng and Pan Zhang, so it can be inferred that Song Qian is probably dead. However, as an old minister who has followed Sun Wu for more than thirty years, it is enough to witness Sun Wu from scratch and from weak to strong.
As an old minister, Song Qian is eligible to become a tiger minister, but the result is as obscure as his partner Jia Hua in the yanyi, perhaps this is his regret
In order to highlight Song Qian's loyalty, the Romance of the Three Kingdoms arranged for a burst into the Wu camp in the Second Battle of Hefei. Song Qian loyally protected the Lord, and wanted to fight but Li Dian was killed by a cold arrow. Perhaps providence is so, the Huang Wu period (222 AD - 229 AD) is the final performance of these elders of the Sun Ce era: Huang Gai, Han Dang, Xu Sheng, Pan Zhang, and others also died during this period. Of course, this also indicates that the era of the Generals of Huaisi in Jiangdong has officially passed, and Sun Wu is about to enter the era of the Jiangdong Shi clan.