Huang Zu was not passively confined to the defense of the house, allowing the Sun family to bully the lord who came to the door, and he would also take the initiative to fight when there was a chance, and it was not in his most prosperous period.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="2" > Huangzu attacked Jiangdong</h1>
Huang Zu's most prosperous period was before the Battle of Sha Xian with Sun Ce. At that time, Liu Xun of Lujiang was powerful, and he also ran to Shangji, northwest of Haidian in Yuzhang County, to attack the disobedient local Hao clan, completely ignoring Yuzhang Taishou Huaxin, that is to say, the area of Yuzhang County,now Jiujiang City actually belonged to Liu Xun's sphere of influence, including Chaisang County (southwest of present-day Jiujiang City).
(Chai Sang in Liu Xun's sphere of influence during Huang Zu's heyday)
After Sun Ce defeated Liu Xun, he attacked Huang Zu with a single blow and fought Huang Zu to the liberation of Huang Zu in the morning through the Battle of Sha Xian, so Chai Sang was not the territory of the Sun family during Huang Zu's heyday.
That is when Huang Zu's vitality recovered later, it may be the years when Sun Quan was pro-government, or it may be that Sun Quan was busy with the three years of counterinsurgency in Jiangdong.
Huang Zu sent his son Huang Zhi to lead thousands of sailors south to Chaisang, and at that time it was Sima of the other department and Xu Sheng of Chaisang County, who was guarding Chaisang. Xu Sheng had five hundred men and horses, but only two hundred were guarding Chaisang City at that time.
Huang Shot ordered his men to attack the city, Xu Sheng organized officers and soldiers to stubbornly resist, Huang Shot's siege troops suffered thousands of casualties, the city was still unable to capture, and morale was greatly damaged. Xu Sheng saw that the fighter plane was coming, opened the city gate, and rushed to the Yellow Shooting Army with these two hundred people.
(Xu Sheng, who has two hundred and thousands of people)
Huang Was defeated, and from then on he never dared to invade Eastern Wu again. Yellow shooting is basically the real battle must be lost, this child can learn the character, but the war is really not good.
In fact, Huang Jie's age at this time is not small. Gan Ning told Sun Quan that Huang Zu was already seven years old and eighty years old, and Huang Zu had been taishou for Jiangxia for nineteen years, that is to say, he only became a Taishou as the leader of the Huang family around the age of fifty or sixty, and Huang She was huang Zu's eldest son, at most more than ten years younger, and Sun Quan succeeded to the throne ten years after Huang Zu was taishou, that is to say, Huang She was also a person of fifty or sixty years old at this time.
Since then, I have not seen any records of yellow shooting, and the death of illness at this age was also a high life expectancy in that era.
In 206-207, Huang Zu sent Deng Long to lead thousands of water troops to attack Chaisang again, but was broken by Zhou Yu and pursued, deng Long was captured and sent to Sun Quan in Wu County.
Our old birthday star, Huang Zu, is seventy or eighty years old, although his brain is not as good as before, and his body is slack and he cannot personally go to the battlefield, but he still does not instigate.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="14" > Sun Quan's second crusade against Huang Zu</h1>
Sun Quan had just experienced a three-year counter-rebellion in Jiangdong and was not well prepared to attack Huang Zu, but as a clearly stated attitude and serving the subordinates of the imperial court, he needed to complete the tasks assigned by the imperial court.
In 207, Cao Cao marched north on Wuhuan, fearing that Liu Biao would sneak up on Xu Du from behind, and ordered Sun Quan to attack Jingzhou in the name of the imperial court, so that Liu Biao had worries about the future.
For Sun Quan, Huang Zu recovered for three years, and he put down the rebellion for three years, and it was very difficult to take Huang Zu, but as long as He harassed Jiangxia and made Liu Biao dare not be distracted from going north, he completed the task.
Sun Quan's cousin Xu Kun probably died in this battle, and Xu Kun's position was not at the level of charging, and he would also be killed by stray arrows, and it is likely that one of the troops he led was annihilated, but there is no record.
(Sun Quan's cousin Xu Kun died at the hands of Huang Zu)
As a result of this battle, Sun Quan captured some Jiangxia people and returned to Jiangdong. As a defender of Huang Zu, it is difficult to avoid the people being killed and plundered, and the retreat of the invaders is victory.
Cao Cao's three marches Zhang Xiu was not victorious, the five attacks on Chang Feng could not be stopped, basically every time Cao Cao won the battle, and finally retreated, Cao Cao did not have a particularly large loss, everyone said that Zhang Xiu and Chang Feng were very powerful.
In the same situation, Huang Zu and the Sun family brothers were unsuccessful in three conquests, but everyone said that he had repeatedly lost battles. In fact, this is all the "Book of Wu" only writes about the Sun family's victory in the battle, and does not mention the result of suffering losses, making people feel as if the Sun family has won the battle every time, so writing history makes people look sideways!
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="23" > Huangzu's later reign</h1>
Huang Zuben was a "cunning" capable person, but as he grew older, he could not escape the laws of nature and began to grow old and faint. Whenever they regained their vitality and became stronger, the Eastern Wu Sun family would come to punch in and consume each other in a wave, plus Liu Biao saw the stitches and needles again, and put his hand into Jiangxia, and set up a new Jiangxia governor to give Su Fei and take away his military power.
The situation in Jiangxia has become more and more complicated.
Gan Ning knew the situation in Xiangyang and Jiangxia very well, and he told Sun Quan that Liu Biao's ambitions were insufficient, and his son was not good, and sooner or later he would be annexed by Cao Cao, and we should be in the front, and to annex Liu Biao, we must first eliminate Huang Zu.
(Once the most powerful naval forces fell into disrepair)
He then described to Sun Quan the "status quo" of Jiangxia: Huang Zu was not as diligent as before, so that his income was stretched thin. Then the people around him saw that he was confused, so they were bent on fishing for more oil and water for themselves, and withheld and demanded from the officers and men at the lower levels, so that the officers and men at the lower levels were resentful; the money for repairing the ships and weapons was also embezzled, the ships were in ruins, and many of the weapons were bad, and there was no combat effectiveness at all. Jiangxia is now a wasteland of farming, and the army lacks training and has lost its legality.
Coupled with the internal friction struggle between Huang Zu and Su Fei, quantitative change is changing to qualitative change, and Huang Zu's demise has become inevitable.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="31" > Sun Quan's third crusade against Huang Zu</h1>
In 208, after full preparation, Sun Quan once again launched an attack on Huang Zu with a luxurious lineup, and Sun Quan prepared a box for Jiang Xia's first and second-in-command Huang Zu and Su Fei to use to hold their heads.
This battle was finally won by Sun Quan, so it is recorded in great detail.
Huang Zu received news of Sun Quan's attack, and Ordered Zhang Shuo to go to meet the attack as a forward, Chen was the admiralty commander of the fleet, and the elderly Huang Zu personally stayed at Xiakou City.
Sun Quanjun's forward Ling Tong was more personal, often taking dozens of cronies and driving a ship away from the large army for dozens of miles. On this day, Ling Tong, who was far away from the large army, just happened to meet Huang Zu's forward Zhang Shuo on the river. Zhang Shuo had many ships, but Ling Tong was fearless and led the crowd to board Zhang Shuo's flagship to behead him, and Zhang Shuo's men saw that the lord was dead, and all of them surrendered.
(The mighty Yangtze River Fleet)
Knowing that Zhang Shuo was dead, Huang Zu ordered people to stop two large Mengchong giant ships at the confluence of the Han River and the Yangtze River outside Xiakou City, and use several thick ropes to join together, and tie large stones at both ends to "anchor" the river surface. There were thousands of people on both ships, and crossbows were fired to form a crossfire, and arrows rained down, making Sun Quanjun unable to pass.
Huang Zu's water warfare method is likely to be the inspiration for the later concept of the defense of Wusuwu advocated by Lü Meng.
Zhou Yu, the former governor, sent a large number of ships to attack the two Mengchong at the mouth of the river, but many of the ships were destroyed by the stones thrown by Huang Zujun on the top of the cliffs on both sides, and it was not feasible to see such a large-scale attack with heavy casualties. Zhou Yu also ordered the generals Dong Xun and Sima Ling of other departments to be the captains, each leading a hundred people in the death squad, each wearing double armor, and taking a large boat to brave the rain of arrows and stones to charge to mengchong.
Dong Xun desperately used a knife to cut the two large ropes that fixed Meng Chong, and Meng Chong was straight by the river, and Sun Quan's army was able to rush through the mouth of the river.
Huang Zu ordered chen to lead the water army to block Sun Quan's fleet, and the pingbei lieutenant Lü Meng commanded the forward to fight, Chen was killed in battle, Lü Meng personally hoisted Chen Yi's head on the flagpole, and Huang Zu's water army saw that the commander was dead, and there was chaos in every inch.
Sun Quan's army took advantage of the victory to advance by land and water, and Ling Tong attacked Xiakou City with the main elite, and before Lü Meng completely destroyed Huang Zu's water army, Ling Tong had already captured Xiakou City. Huang Zu fled, but his luck was not as good as the Battle of Sha Xian, and he was chased and beheaded by the Eastern Wu cavalry Feng Ze.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="43" > summary</h1>
Huang Zu was born as a famous leader, and in his old age, he was asked by Liu Biao to be the Taishou of Jiangxia, and he fought with Liu Biao internally, and was repeatedly attacked by the Sun family brothers, and did not fall in Jiangxia for nineteen years. Later, Huang Zu was old and dim,Jiangxia had serious internal attrition, political chaos, economic collapse, unpaid armaments, and soldiers were alienated from Germany; after ten years of war with the Sun family, they finally perished, and Liu Biao's forces were also destroyed in the same year.
If he really responded to the words of Sun Ce and Gan Ning: Liu Biao can be arrogant, all rely on Huang Zu for his minions, without minions, Liu Biao is easy to clean up!
(Republic 10)
Part I: Eastern Wu background plate Huang Zu, is actually a cruel person (middle)