"The children have been broken."
In December of the eighth year of the Eastern Jin Dynasty (383 AD), when the great victory at the Battle of Fangshui was coming, Xie An was playing chess, and after hearing the good news, he only said it so lightly. However, on his way home, he was also too excited to unconsciously break his shoes when crossing the threshold.
In fact, the victory in the Battle of Shuishui, whether for Xie An or for the entire Eastern Jin Dynasty, was a thing that people could not help but shout ecstasy, Xie An could not bear what others could not endure, and it was enough for hundreds of generations.
However, regarding the Battle of Shuishui, this was by no means a fluke victory, but it was by no means as magical as the legend has it.
The Xie clan of Chen Jun, the gate valve force that rose on behalf of the Huan clan of the state during the Xiaowu Emperor period, only in Xie An's generation did it truly leave a strong mark on the historical stage and become a veritable "Dang axis clan" in the Eastern Jin Dynasty.
At the beginning of the osmanthus blossom on the mountain vagina, Wang Xie was full of Jin books.
As a politician, Xie An is particularly outstanding in that he can balance the interests of various families like the previous dynasty's royal guide. In the general environment of the Eastern Jin Dynasty's gate valve politics, left and right were folded, and the upper and lower forces were linked, that is, the forces of all sides were condensed, and an elite army of hundreds of battles was created: the Beifu Soldiers.
As mentioned earlier, before the Battle of Shuishui, Xie An had sent his nephew Xie Xuan to Guangling to recruit an army large enough to balance Huan's forces, and to show his strength in the Battle of Huainan (link: Beifu soldiers before the Battle of Shuishui). After several years of reorganization, this Northern Fu army had developed into a real main force in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, with Xie Xuan as the leader, Liu Jiaozhi, He Qian, and other fierce generals.
Xie Xuan is also the most outstanding of the Xie Zhilan Yushu. Xie's multi-literary scribes, such as Xie Lingyun, Xie Daoyun, Xie Shuo, etc., while Xie Xuan was known for his martial arts. He not only single-handedly created the Beifu Army, but also led this army to sweep the world, and the Battle of Shuishui was the culmination of his glorious achievements.
In August of the eighth year of Taihe (383 AD), Jian Jian poured his troops from all over the country to attack Jin, and the army was huge, claiming 900,000. The confrontation force that the Eastern Jin Dynasty could organize was only 80,000, and with such a weak force, to fight against the strong Qin of the tiger and wolf was tantamount to hitting a stone with an egg.
Sun Tzu's Art of War: "Ten is to encircle, five to attack, double to fight, the enemy can divide, less can be defended, and if not, it can be avoided." "The total number of Qin troops was more than 10 times that of the Jin army, and if Jian Jian adopted the advice of his subordinates at that time, according to the front of the river bank and the Eastern Jin Dynasty, the victor of this war was likely to belong to Former Qin, then there would probably be a unified Great Qin Empire in Chinese history."
However, Jian Jian was eager to make a quick profit, listened to Xie Xuan's lies, and retreated his army, trying to intercept and kill the Jin army halfway when it crossed the river. Zhu Xu, the Xiangyang defender who had surrendered before, shouted from the rear: "The Qin army is defeated!" As a result, the Qin army was in chaos, and Zhi Jian's brother Xiang Rong (the commander of the Qin army at the time) rushed to suppress the position, but the horse lost its front hoof and was beheaded by the Jin army that caught up. At this point, the Qin army was full of wind and cranes, and the grass and trees were all soldiers, and in a thousand miles, the peak of Qin suddenly fell.
If xie an is in power, it is a needle in the Eastern Jin Dynasty. Then his nephew Xie Xuan led the army, it was a golden hoop stick that hit the world. Therefore, even Former Qin, a fierce tiger and wolf beast, fell in front of them.
However, the comparison of 80,000 in the Eastern Jin Dynasty to 900,000 in Former Qin is obviously deliberately exaggerated.
In fact, the total number of Former Qin troops may have this number, but this is just a ragtag group of people who have temporarily organized the whole country to talk about their might. In fact, the most that can really fight is the 300,000 vanguard army recorded in the Zizhi Tongjian.
These 300,000 vanguard troops were divided into 50,000 by the offensive of Huan Chong on the western front, and more than 100,000 were lost before the Battle of Shuishui. Among them, the 50,000 yuan led by the Wei general Liang Cheng, Tun Yu Luojian, was completely annihilated by the Beifu army led by Liu Gaozhi. The Pingnan general Murong Wei (慕容暐) led an army at Yuncheng, and upon hearing that Liang Cheng had been killed, he "abandoned his army and ran back", losing no less than 30,000 troops. The champion general, Murong Chui, led an army of 30,000, but "only the army sat alone" and did not participate in the battle at all. In this way, in the Battle of Shuishui, the Qin army that really participated in the battle was only 140,000 people at most.
In the Eastern Jin Dynasty, in addition to the 80,000 Northern Fu army led by Xie Xuan, there were also Hu Bin's 5,000 water troops, Huan Chong's 3,000 "weijing divisions" and Liu Gaozhi's 5,000 troops participated in the battle, plus 35,000 people who captured Liang Cheng, and the Eastern Jin Dynasty had more than 130,000 troops, which was actually on a par with the Qin army.
In terms of morale, discipline, and motivation for fighting, there is no doubt that the main force of the Northern Province soldiers of the Eastern Jin Dynasty is superior. Coupled with the unity within the Eastern Jin Dynasty and the outstanding ability of the generals, the Northern Fu Army was able to completely crush Former Qin and win the Battle of Shuishui with one blow.
Wen/Zi Yue Shaohuai