Chapter 31 Before the second quarter, Qin sent troops to attack Jin

In July of the eighth year of Taiyuan (383 A.D.), Fu Jian issued an order to attack the Eastern Jin Dynasty.The order stipulated that one out of every 10 men in the common people should be selected as a soldier; all the children of noble families, who are under the age of 20 and have martial arts skills, will be named Habayashiro, and they will be incorporated into the imperial guards and follow the army. Go to war; public and private horses from all states will be recruited as army horses.After receiving this order, the officials from all over the Qin Dynasty did not care about the life and death of the common people, arrested people and robbed them everywhere, and took the opportunity to extort money from the common people, forcing the common people's wives to be separated and their families to be destroyed.

In August of this year, Fu Jian collected more than 600,000 infantry, 270,000 cavalry, and 30,000 Habayashi troops from various states, known as an army of one million.Fu Jian appointed Fu Rong as the general who conquered the South, and together with the Xianbei nobleman Murong Chui, he led 250,000 cavalry as the vanguard and set off from Chang'an.He also appointed Yao Chang (changchang), a general of the Qiang nationality, as the general of Longxiang (xiang Xiang), to lead the Sichuan troops down the Yangtze River.Fu Jian personally led the main force to set off from Chang'an. Along the way, people screamed and flags covered the sky. The avenue was crowded with the troops of the former Qin Dynasty. Together with vehicles, horses, grain, grass, and luggage, it was hundreds of miles long.The soldiers recruited by force only cared about their own family affairs and were unwilling to fight for Fu Jian.Some soldiers plundered the property of the common people along the way, causing unrest in both urban and rural areas.Although there were many troops in the former Qin Dynasty, their discipline was very bad, their morale was low, and they lacked combat effectiveness.

In September, Fu Jian led the main force to capture Xiangcheng (now Xiangcheng County, Henan Province) in the Eastern Jin Dynasty and stationed here.After more than a month of marching day and night, Fu Rong's vanguard had reached Yingkou on the north bank of the Huaihe River (now Zhengyang Town in the southeast of Yingshang County, Anhui Province), and headed towards Feishui (a tributary of the Huaihe River, in today's Shouyang County, Anhui Province). Shouyang (now Shouxian County, Anhui Province), an important town on the west bank of the territory, launched an offensive.