Chapter 35 Section 6 Feishui Battle

The Jin army received the reply from the other party and immediately acted urgently.Xie Xuan led 80,000 Jin troops and lined up on the east bank of Feishui, with cavalry in front and infantry behind, and the army was very neat. The time for the decisive battle has come. Fu Jian sat out of Shouyang City in a gorgeous chariot decorated with mica, surrounded by several generals.Fu Rong and General Zhang Hao (Hao Hao) both put on their armor and rode to the front of the formation.Fu Jian looked at the other side, and asked Fu Rong to pass down the general order, ordering the whole army to retreat, so as to clear the battlefield and let the Jin army cross the river for a decisive battle.Most of the Qin army was forcibly recruited by Fu Jian, including Han people and enslaved people of various ethnic groups. They hated war, and they were even less willing to work for the nobles of the Di tribe.As soon as they heard Fu Rong's order to move the whole army back, they immediately took the opportunity to flee, pushing each other, scrambling to be the first, unstoppable.At this time, Zhu Xu shouted from behind the formation: "The Qin army has been defeated! The Qin army has been defeated!" When the soldiers heard this, they ran faster on their two legs, and the entire Qin army collapsed.General Qin wanted to stop the soldiers from fleeing by killing people, but how could he stop them?Even they themselves were surrounded by the crowd and retreated.At this time, Xie Xuan immediately led 8,000 cavalry with Xie Yan, Huan Yi and other generals, jumped into Feishui, and the Jin army followed closely.Seeing that the situation was not good, Fu Jian told Fu Rong to quickly order the Qin army to stop retreating and turn around to meet the Jin army.However, the retreating Qin army was like a flood that broke its embankment, and it could not be stopped at all.

Xie Xuan seized this favorable opportunity and directed the Jin army to pursue closely.The chief general of the Qin army, Fu Rong, also wanted to personally suppress the formation and prevent the Qin soldiers from continuing to retreat.Unexpectedly, a rebel army rushed over and knocked down his mount. Fu Rong fell off the horse, and the soldiers of the Jin army hacked him to death.The Qin army lost its general and became more chaotic. It is unknown how many people and horses trampled each other to death, and were killed by the Jin army.There were corpses all over the field, and blood flowed like rivers.

Those soldiers of the Qin army who were lucky enough to save their lives fled to the northwest of Shouyang in despair.They were afraid of the Jin army chasing them, so they didn't dare to walk on the main road, so they could only run around on the small road full of weeds.I dare not go to the houses of ordinary people at night, so I can only sleep in the open.The common people along the way also took up weapons one after another to attack the remnants of the Qin army.Qin Bing was even more frightened, and no one dared to look back to see if there was any Jin army chasing them. Even hearing the sound of the wind blowing and cranes calling (the sound of wind and cranes [li calendar]), they thought it was the pursuers.It was November at this time, and the weather was extremely cold. These Qin soldiers who escaped were cold and hungry, and seven or eight of them died in the end.

Besides, the proud and arrogant Fu Jian saw the defeat of the front line outside Shouyang City, and was terrified. He hurriedly jumped off the mica cart, stepped on a war horse, and fled for his life in a panic among the disordered army.Before Fu Jian could run far, he was shot in the shoulder by an arrow, bleeding profusely.He fled in embarrassment and crossed the Huai River by chance. At this time, there were only a few people following him.Fu Jian gathered more than 1,000 cavalry when he collected the remnants in Huaibei.Only 30,000 of his subordinates, the Xianbei nobleman Murong Chui, did not suffer any losses, so he took more than 1,000 cavalry to Murong Chui, and retreated to Luoyang together.Fu Jian collected some rout soldiers along the way, and when he returned to Luoyang, there were only a few hundred thousand soldiers left.Fu Jian was very sad, and said to his favorite concubine: "This time I lost so badly, what face do I have to rule the world!"

News of the victory of the Feishui War quickly spread to Jiankang.Prime Minister Xie An was playing chess with friends at home that day.After reading the battle report sent by Xie Shi, he knew that Qin Jun had been defeated, so he put it on the bed and played chess as usual, as if nothing happened at all.The friend couldn't bear it any longer and asked Xie An: "How is the situation on the battlefield?" Xie An then calmly replied: "It's nothing, the children have already defeated Fu Jian." The friend listened, pushed the chessboard, He hurried out to report the good news to his colleagues.After a while, Xie An got up and went back to the inner house. At this moment, he couldn't restrain his inner ecstasy anymore. When he stepped over the threshold, he broke the teeth of the wooden clogs he was wearing. He himself does not know.

The Battle of Feishui was the biggest battle during the Eastern Jin Dynasty and the Sixteen Kingdoms period.From the massive offensive to the decisive battle of Feishui, the former Qin Dynasty collapsed in just four months.After this battle, the relatively stable situation of the Eastern Jin Dynasty was consolidated, and the economy and culture of Jiangnan were further developed.On the contrary, due to the failure of Fu Jian, the former Qin regime disintegrated, and many countries that were destroyed by Fu Jian were restored one after another. Some ethnic minorities who had not established a country also established a country one after another. situation.

In this war, the former Qin army had more than 900,000 troops, while the Eastern Jin army had only 80,000 troops. The result of the war was that Jin defeated Qin and lost.The fundamental reason here is that the war launched by Fu Jian was an unjust war to expand his rule limitlessly and plunder the products in the south of the Yangtze River; just war.Although the former Qin Dynasty had advantages in both economic and military affairs, there were many internal contradictions, and the people were war-weary. They looked strong but were actually weak. At that time, they did not have the conditions to unify the north and the south. , the rear was relatively stable, the people actively supported it, and through subjective efforts, they were finally able to defeat a powerful enemy and win a brilliant victory.

The victory of the Eastern Jin Dynasty in this war should be mainly attributed to the soldiers and people of the Eastern Jin Dynasty; the prime minister Xie An was able to make decisions and deployments calmly, and the generals such as Xie Xuan were able to use flexible strategies and tactics according to the actual situation of the enemy and ourselves. This is also an important reason. .However, Fu Jian was arrogant and underestimated the enemy. He did not view the situation objectively, did not listen to correct opinions, insisted on going his own way, and blindly acted recklessly, which resulted in the disastrous defeat of the Qin army.