Chapter 70 Sixteen, Liu Jinu retreated from the Wei soldiers in a month

After Liu Yu eliminated Huanxuan in the third year of Yuanxing (AD 404) in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and before he usurped the throne in the second year of Yuanxi (AD 420), Liu Yu gradually improved his strength and prestige and became the leader of the entire empire. The de facto spokesperson of the Eastern Jin Dynasty. Liu Yu was the founder of the Southern Dynasties and a hero in the Sixteen Kingdoms period.There is very little said about him in the "Book of Jin", we have to turn to the "Book of Song" and "Southern History". "Song Shu" said that he was "clean and simple with few desires, strict and orderly". Although it is an over-reputation of the founding monarch, it is mostly true.He was born in poverty, so he understands the difficulties of starting a business. He lacks the frivolity of the leisure class and more of the lower-middle class.Therefore, he made his mark in the battle to suppress Sun En as soon as he was a fledgling, and then showed his prowess in front of Huan Xuan, whose family power was much stronger than him.

The power of the corrupt and incurable Eastern Jin Empire has changed hands many times among the Wang, Yu, Xie, and Huan families, and now it has almost lost its direction.Sun En and Lu Xun, just a few clowns who started out by promoting "evil religions", have smashed its hinterland to almost a pulp. Liu Yu should feel that he was born at the right time, and when he met a good age, he easily occupied the vacuum of Jin's power.In the year when he destroyed Nanyan, Lu Xun, who ruled Guangzhou, followed the advice of his general Xu Daofu, and divided his troops into two northern expeditions. He defeated He Wuji, a general of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and defeated He Wuji, who also made outstanding contributions in the restoration of Emperor An. Liu Yi approached Jiankang, and the ruling and opposition parties in the Eastern Jin Dynasty were terrified.

However, at this time, Liu Yu had already wiped out Nanyan's power, and the class teacher returned to the court.When he led his army south to counterattack, Lu Xunli felt at a loss, neither daring to advance nor retreat, so he was defeated continuously and was driven to Jiaozhou by Liu Yu's army, and finally he was surrounded by Du Huidu, the governor of Jiaozhou by a river. Lu Xun killed his wife and children when he had nowhere to go, and then recruited a bunch of prostitutes (probably some kind of comfort women), and asked them: "I'm going to commit suicide, who wants to die with me?" ?”

Most of the prostitutes said: "It's too difficult for us to seek death if the mouse is still alive." Lu Xun killed these prostitutes just to make fun of himself, and followed Sun En's footsteps by throwing himself into the water to die. After Liu Yu solved Lu Xun, in the eighth year of Yixi (AD 412), he eliminated Liu Yi, who was not compatible with him, and by the way, he also attacked Zhuge Changmin who might pose a threat to him, and suppressed the Eastern Jin Dynasty. Sima Xiuzhi and others forced him to flee, sweeping away the dissident forces.In the second year, he attacked Qiaozong, the warlord who had occupied Bashu for nearly ten years, and recovered the southwest region.After rectifying the rear area, Liu Yu assembled the national forces in the twelfth year of Yixi (AD 416) and launched the second Northern Expedition. This time, the target was Hou Qin who vowed to send troops to aid Yan during the last Northern Expedition.

Yao Hong, the emperor of the Later Qin Dynasty, was very knowledgeable, loved to write poems, and treated people well, but he was not suitable to be an emperor.He was not good at handling state affairs, and he was weak and sick. Yao Xing hesitated several times before making him the crown prince.Although he resolutely quelled Yao Min's civil strife when he came to the throne, he couldn't find a way to turn the tide.The Xiongnu rebelled against him, Qiu Chi rebelled against him, and He Lianbo fanned the flames everywhere in his post-Qin territory. In the end, he encountered the ultimate challenge of Liu Yu, a hero in troubled times.

Liu Yu's army assembled in Pengcheng and marched westward along the Yellow River. Along the way, he was surrendered by the defenders of the Later Qin Dynasty and came to Chenggao near Luoyang.The guard Yao Ming asked Yao Hong for help. At this time, Yao Hong was still dealing with Helianbo's invasion. Dongping Gong Yao Shao advised him to move the stable soldiers and civilians to Guanzhong to enrich the defense force. The pitiful 10,000 infantry and 3,000 cavalry were killed. Before the reinforcements arrived, Yao Kuang couldn't stand it anymore and surrendered to Liu Yuxian. Just when foreign enemies invaded, Yao Yi, the imperial family of the later Qin Dynasty and the governor of the state, rebelled again, intending to abolish Yao Hong and stand on his own.Poor Yao Hong, when he met all the officials in the main hall, he couldn't help the pain in his heart, and wept bitterly with the ministers.

(Such a scene is probably rare. In the past and present, regimes have prosperity and decline, prosperity leads to joy, decline leads to sadness, but it is really not easy to be as sad as Yao Hong. This reminds me of what happened in Nanyan A real joke: A man named Wang Shi gathered tens of thousands of people on Mount Tai. He called himself Emperor Taiping, called his father Emperor Taishang, and his brothers were General Zhengdong and Zhengxi. Beat him and arrest him. When he was beheading, someone asked him: "Where are your father and brother?" He said: "The Emperor Taishang took refuge outside, Zhengdong and Zhengxi were killed by the rebel army. " His wife said angrily: "It is because of your mouth that you have fallen into this situation today. Why don't you wake up?" What about the country? If I collapse, it will collapse, and I will never change the title of emperor!" Although this Wang Shi is ridiculous, what he said is indeed a proverb through the ages, and it makes people feel sad when thinking about the end.)

No matter how much Yao Hong cried, he could not save himself. At the beginning of the thirteenth year of Yixi in the Eastern Jin Dynasty (AD 417), the Jin army had already conquered the Kanto and Henan.At this time, the Northern Wei Dynasty in Hebei became a subtle factor in the battle between Qin and Jin: Yao Hong asked Tuoba Si for help, and Liu Yu asked Tuoba Si to attack Qin through the Yellow River.Tuoba Si summoned a group of ministers to discuss. Cui Hao, who offered sacrifices to the wine, was very clever and said: "Liu Yu is bound to win the later Qin Dynasty. If we block his river course, we will be enemies on behalf of Qin Dynasty and Jin. It is not a good way. It is better to lend him the river course. Let him go west, and then block his way of retreating east. If Liu Yu captures Chang'an, he will definitely be grateful to us. If we can't, we still have the reputation of saving Qin." Tuoba Si thought about it, Feeling inappropriate, they still sent 100,000 infantry and cavalry to garrison the north bank of the Yellow River to wait and see what happened.

Liu Yu's water army marched west along the Yellow River, and the army of the Northern Wei Dynasty followed on the north bank.As soon as there was a strong wind and strong water, some of the Jin army drifted to the north bank, and were attacked and killed by the Wei army.Wei Jun's way of dealing with Liu Yu is that the enemy advances and we go, and the enemy retreats and we attack.Liu Yu sent General Ding Yi to rush to the north bank with 700 soldiers and 100 chariots.At a distance of about a hundred paces from the shore, a semi-circular formation called "Queyue" was formed with military vehicles, with the two ends leaning against the river, and seven soldiers were seated in each vehicle, and a white feather was erected in the formation. .Wei Jun didn't understand the situation and didn't dare to move.Suddenly, the white feathers in the moon formation were lifted up, and Liu Yu's general Zhu Chaoshi led two thousand soldiers with one hundred crossbows and rushed into the formation, adding twenty people to each cart.

Seeing that the formation was completed, Wei Jun felt confident in his heart, so he attacked the Jin formation with 30,000 cavalry, and the Jin army's crossbow really couldn't resist it.Who knows that Liu Yu's formation has other advantages. He asked Zhu Chaoshi to arrange more than a thousand spears of three or four feet, install a large crossbow, and hit them with an iron hammer. When the spear flies away, it can pierce three or four spears. Wei Bing.The army of the Northern Wei Dynasty scattered and collapsed in all directions as if they had seen a new type of weapon, and there were piles of dead bodies.The Jin army took advantage of the victory to pursue, and the Northern Wei Dynasty lost thousands of soldiers. Liu Yu thus opened up the road to the west.When Tuoba Si got the news, he regretted Cui Hao's suggestion all the time, and he had to look at this Han man with admiration.