Chapter 33 The fourth quarter Luojian battle

Relying on his strong military strength, Fu Jian ordered Fu Rong to launch a fierce attack on the Jin army before all the troops arrived.In October, Fu Rong captured Shouyang City.Hu Bin led the navy before reaching Shouyang. Hearing the news on the way, he was forced to retreat to the Xia (xiaxia) stone (now southwest of Fengtai County, Anhui Province) with a river on one side and a high mountain on the other. Set up camp in this dangerous place, waiting for the arrival of Xie Shi's army.After Fu Rong occupied Shouyang, he sent troops to besiege Xiashi, and at the same time sent Liang Cheng to lead 50,000 troops to control Luojian (that is, the place where Luo River flows into Huai River, in the southwest of Dingyuan County, Anhui Province today) to prevent people coming from the east. Rescue Hu Bin's Jin army.Xie Shi ordered the Jin army to station at a place 25 miles away from Luojian.

Xie Shi's army could not move forward, and Hu Bin's navy who was besieged in Xiashi was isolated. Seeing that the army was about to run out of food, the situation was very urgent.In order to confuse the enemy, Hu Bin ordered the soldiers to take dustpans and shake the sand on the river bank every day, so that the Qin army in the distance could see that they were dusting rice, indicating that their army rations were still sufficient.At the same time, he wrote an urgent letter to Xie Shi, saying: "The enemy army is very powerful now, and the rations here have been exhausted. The situation is very urgent. I am afraid that we will not be able to meet the army again." He handed the secret letter to a The soldiers asked him to break out at night and give it to Xie Shi.Unexpectedly, this soldier was caught by Qin Jun on the way, and the urgent secret letter was also searched by Qin Jun.When Fu Rong got this information, he immediately sent someone to Xiangcheng overnight to report to Fu Jian, saying: "Now that the Jin army is running out of food, it is a good opportunity to defeat them. We should launch an attack immediately, and we must not let them escape!"

The arrogant Fu Jian was complacent about capturing Xiangcheng, and he was even more elated when he heard Fu Rong's secret report.That night, Fu Jian left the army in Xiangcheng, quietly selected 8,000 light cavalry, led them personally, and rushed to Shouyang day and night, hoping to catch Xie Shi by surprise and destroy the Eastern Jin Dynasty in one fell swoop.When he left Xiangcheng, he also gave a stern order to the soldiers in Xiangcheng: "Whoever dares to leak the news of my going to Shouyang, I will pull out his tongue by the roots!" When Fu Jian came to Shouyang, he discussed with Fu Rong that it was possible for the Eastern Jin Dynasty to surrender without a fight, so he decided to send Zhu Xu to the Jin army to persuade him to surrender.Zhu Xu was originally a Han. He served as the assassin of Liangzhou in the Eastern Jin Dynasty. He was defeated and captured in the Xiangyang Guard Battle.When Zhu Xu came to the Jin camp, he not only did not persuade him to surrender, but instead secretly told Xie Shi and Xie Xuan about everything he knew about the Qin army, and offered suggestions to the two generals to defeat the enemy.He said: "Fu Jian has put together a national army this time, with a total of more than 900,000 people. If these troops come together, it will be really difficult to deal with. But at present, most of the Qin army is still on the march, and the soldiers from Liangzhou have just arrived in Xianyang. ;The strength of the Qin army on the front line is not very strong. If the Jin army wants to launch an attack, now is a great opportunity. As long as you send an elite soldier to defeat the Qin army's forward and dampen its spirit, the Qin army will collapse across the board." After Zhu Xu finished speaking, he hurried back to Shouyang.

At first, Xie Shi thought that Fu Jian's main force had already arrived in Shouyang, and wanted to take a defensive position to exhaust the Qin army; later, Xie Xuan, Xie Yan and others carefully studied Zhu Xu's secret report, and decided to take advantage of Fu Jian's main force. Arriving, first eliminate Liang Cheng's troops, remove obstacles to advance, and rescue the siege of Xiashi.So he sent the brave general Liu Laozhi to lead 5,000 Beifu soldiers to attack Liang Cheng's troops stationed in Luojian. After receiving the order, Liu Laozhi led 5,000 Beifu soldiers and set off for Luojian by starlight that night.Hearing that an attack on the Qin army was about to be launched, all the Beifu soldiers were eager to fight, and the fighting spirit was extremely high.The Jin army came to a place 10 miles away from Luoshui. Liu Laozhi received a report from the outpost saying: Liang Cheng's troops set up camp on the other side of Luoshui. Into dreamland.Liu Laozhi immediately gave the troops an order to march quickly.The 5,000 Beifu soldiers waded through the water, bravely broke through the Qin army's forward position like a tiger descending a mountain, and rushed into the enemy's camp with shouts.Before the Qin soldiers who were sleeping soundly had time to figure out the situation, many people were killed by the Jin army.Liang Cheng woke up from his dream, and was shocked to hear the sound of fighting outside the tent.He got up in a panic, put on his armor, and got on his horse. Just as he was about to resist, he saw Liu Laozhi leading the horse, holding a spear in his hand, rushing towards Liang Cheng's camp, just in time to meet Liang Cheng.The two fought for more than a dozen rounds. Liang Cheng was timid and soft-hearted, gradually unable to hold back, and was stabbed by Liu Laoyi's horse under his horse.

The Qin army lost its leader, and even more unwilling to resist, they fled back one after another.The Jin army took advantage of the victory and pursued them all the way to the edge of the Huaihe River.Liu Laozhi immediately divided his troops to cut off the Qin soldiers' retreat.Being chased to nowhere, Qin Bing jumped into the Huai River to escape, and many of them drowned in the water.After a night of fierce fighting, the Qin army killed and injured 15,000 people, Luojian was recovered by Liu Laozhi's Beifu soldiers, and the former Qin's blockade on the Huaihe River was broken.

When Xie Shi and Xie Xuan heard the news of Luojian's great victory, they ordered Liu Laozhi to continue westward along the Huaihe River to rescue the siege of Kipshi; It is across the river from the Qin army in Fujian on the opposite bank.Encouraged by the news of victory, the morale of the Jin army rose even higher.A fierce decisive battle is coming.