In the eighth year of the Sui Kai Emperor (588 AD), Yang Jianbing conquered the State of Chen in three ways.
As a result, the Third Route Army, led by Marshal Yang Su, "threw stones and asked for directions" in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, and soon they broke through the obstacles of various checkpoints upstream, and then led their army from upstream to Wolf's Tail Beach (in present-day Dongtianxi, Hubei). After taking the wolf's tail beach in one fell swoop, Yang Su was like a bamboo, no one could plunder it, Chen Jun fled with the wind, and gave him a well-known nickname - Jiang Shen.
Compared with Yang Su of the Third Route Army, Yang Jun, the commander of the Second Route Army, was much more bumpy. He encountered stubborn resistance from the Chen army in Hankou and then entered a long stalemate, and later Yang Jun, under the support of Yang Su, quickly attacked Jingzhou.
Just when Yang Su broke through the natural danger of the Yangtze River and the entire line of defense along the Southern Chen River was in a hurry, Chen Shubao did not know the situation on the front line, and was still living a life of spending days and drinking, drunkenly dreaming of death.
Blocking Chen Shubao's all ties with the outside world were the popular "Three Musketeers" who were in charge of the government: Kong Fan, Shi Wenqing, and Shen Keqing.
Kong Fan and Shi Wenqing, presumably everyone is no stranger, it is precisely because of the support and help of this pair of "Gemini constellations" that Chen Shubao has to take back the imperial power from Chen Shujian. With the merit of supporting the establishment, plus the two people and understanding flattery, after Chen Shubao took power, he was very fond of the two, and it is not too much to describe it as the power of the opposition. And Shen Keqing, because of his eloquence and good at patting his ass, was also reused by Chen Shubao under the recommendation of Chen Shi and chen shi.
Chen Shubao would not know that the "Three Musketeers" he had created with his own hands had become his gravedigger. The "Three Musketeers" were all excluded from the imperial court on the charge of "falsehood" to ministers who dared to advise "loyal", leaving them to cover the sky with one hand.
Seeing that the country has reached a critical moment of life and death, the "Three Musketeers" are still fooling Chen Shubao with all kinds of tricks.
The righteous people in the DPRK and China were indignant, and one of them even single-handedly broke through the obstruction of the "Three Musketeers" and rushed directly to Chen Shubao, who was drinking with a beautiful woman, and said a very relieved sentence: "The Sui army is about to break through the natural dangers of the Yangtze River, and if you continue like this, you will become the king of the subjugated country." He then reported to Chen Shubao on the military situation on the front line and suggested that elite troops and large warships be sent to Jingkou (present-day Zhenjiang, Jiangsu) and Quarry (present-day Dangtu, Anhui) for key precautions.
This person is Fan Yi, the "General of the Protectors".
However, it turns out that the saying of faithfulness is not false at all. The faint-hearted Chen Shubao finally chose to continue to "sleep", the reason is self-evident, Fan Yi's proposal was blocked by the "Three Musketeers", and at the critical moment, Chen Shubao did not listen to the traitor's wrong words of the country, then he was not the king of the country.
On the Sui side, it was the turn of Yang Guang, the marshal of the first march, to perform, and he sent the "general manager" He Ruobi to lead a large army from Guangling (present-day Yangzhou, Jiangsu) to cross the river, aiming directly at the important military town of Jingkou on the shore. As a result, He Ruobi lived up to his high expectations, and he repeated his old trick, taking advantage of Chen Jun's relaxation of vigilance to successfully cross the river with the strategy of "hiding the sky and crossing the sea", and then took Jingkou with lightning speed. At the same time, another of Yang Guang's generals, Han Huhu, successfully landed from Hengjiangpu (present-day southeast of Hexian County, Anhui), and then unknowingly attacked the quarry, but there was also no suspense, and the quarry defenders even avoided the process of resisting, and directly put up a white flag to open the door to bring the Sui army into the city.
Jingkou was lost, quarrying was lost, and the Yangtze River defense line collapsed completely. Although the "Three Musketeers" wanted to block the news of the defeat of the front line with all their might, the paper could not contain the fire after all, and Chen Shubao, who realized it in hindsight, finally hardened again, saying the only manly sentence in his life: "The Sui army invaded and stole the land in my southern suburbs, just like the invasion of bees and crayfish, and should be swept away in time." He was the commander of the Sixth Division, purged the eight directions, and martial law was imposed inside and outside the capital. ”
Translated into the vernacular: the Sui army actually invaded our border land, which is like a bee with swaddlings and poisonous insects, and if it is not eliminated in time, the consequences are unimaginable. This time I cannot sit idly by, I will personally lead the troops to destroy the enemy who invaded us. From now on, the whole country will enter a state of first-level combat readiness.
It should be said that from Chen Shubao's words, we have seen two points, one is that he realized the seriousness of the situation. The Sui army did not come this time, the good people did not come, if no measures were taken to stop it, it was likely that there would be a danger of national subjugation. The second is that he wants to snuff out this seriousness in the "cradle". Personally taking command of the expedition, for Chen Shubao, it really needs courage and courage.
Of course, in the final analysis, doing what he wants to do, asking him to take command is to amuse you, the purpose is only to strengthen morale, as the king of a country, how can he risk his life to go to the front line to charge the front. Of course, he did not go, but he still came to a "five tigers down the Heavenly Mountain", and sent three people, Xiao Maha, the general of the Hussars, Fan Yi, the general of the escort army, and Lu Guangda, the leader of the central army, to serve as the governor of the unified army, and sent Sima Nanxuan and Shi Wenqing of Xiangzhou (present-day Changsha, Hunan) to serve as the grand overseer.
All three of the commanders of this unified army were good generals, and it should be said that Chen Shubao's deployment was still not faint. And the Great Supervision Army is half seawater and half flames, Shi Wenqing needless to say, belongs to the "seawater" category, and basically those who don't look good will be drowned by him. The name Sima Nanxuan must be familiar to everyone, he was a member of the "Revolutionary Trio" that openly opposed Yang Jian at the beginning, and later he saw that the wind was not in the right direction, so he turned to Chen Guo. He belongs to the "flame" category, and he can do a big job with great force. At this time, Chen Shubao appointed him as a supervisor, which had the intention of "treating his body in the way of others" with great intentions.
At the same time, Chen Shubao also increased the intensity of rewards and encouraged all the people to participate in the national defense war.
However, as soon as Chen Shubao's military order was issued, the bad news came one after another. At this time, Yang Su of the Third Route Army had already broken through Chen Huiji's obstruction, and when Jiangxia met Yang Jun of the Second Route Army, Jiangxia was already in danger.
At the same time, after Yang Guang's two generals broke through Chen Guo's Yangtze River defense line, He Ruobi went from the north road and Han Huhu from the south road, and the two major armies advanced hand in hand and continued to go deeper into the hinterland of Chen Guo. He Ruobi soon conquered Qu'a (present-day Danyang, Jiangsu) and occupied the military stronghold of Purple Mountain (in present-day eastern Nanjing), and Han Huhu also quickly attacked Xinlin (新林, in modern Jiangning, Jiangsu). If Purple Mountain is the northern gate of Jiankang (present-day Nanjing), the capital of the Chen Kingdom, then Xinlin is the southern gate of Jiankang.
The two Sui armies marched hand in hand, occupying the main points, and had formed a siege on Jiankang, and the demise of the Chen state was also a matter of time.