Chapter 37 128 Liu Yu puts out the moon array

After Emperor Jin'an was restored, Liu Yu took power in the Eastern Jin Dynasty.Liu Yu was originally a small military officer from a poor background, and he had no status in the gentry.In order to improve his prestige, he decided to launch the Northern Expedition. In 409 A.D., Liu Yu set out from Jiankang and first sent troops to surround Guanggu, the capital of Nanyan (one of the sixteen kingdoms) (now northwest of Yidu, Shandong).Murong Chao, the leader of Nanyan, was in a hurry and asked Hou Qin for help. At that time, Hou Qin was a relatively large country in the north.Yao Xing, the lord of Qin, sent an envoy to meet Liu Yu at the camp of the Jin army and said: "Yan and our Qin are friendly neighbors. We have sent 100,000 troops to station in Luoyang. You must force Yan, we will not Sitting idly by."

Liu Yu listened to the envoy's threats, and said with a sneer, "Go back and tell Yao Xing. I planned to destroy the Yan Kingdom, and then rest for three years before destroying you. Now that you are willing to come to your door, then come! " After the envoy left, someone said to Liu Yu, "I'm afraid you will anger Yao Xing by answering him like this. If the Qin soldiers really come to attack, how will we deal with it?" Liu Yutai said: "You don't understand this reason. As the saying goes: 'Soldiers are expensive and fast', if they really want to send troops, they will send troops secretly, why send someone to notify first? This is completely Yao Xing's bluff, Scaring us. I don’t think I can take care of it, how can I save people.”

As Liu Yu expected, at that time Hou Qin was fighting with another small country, Xia, and they were defeated, let alone sending troops to rescue Nanyan.Not long after, Liu Yu wiped out Nanyan. A few years later, Liu Yuping settled the separatist forces in the south, and made another Northern Expedition to attack the Later Qin Dynasty.He sent generals Wang Zhen'e and Tan Daoji to lead the infantry to attack Luoyang from the Huai River area, and he himself led the water army to march along the Yellow River. At that time, the Northern Wei Dynasty established by the Xianbei people in the north began to grow stronger, and its power had grown to the north bank of the Yellow River.The Northern Wei Dynasty gathered an army of 100,000 on the north bank to threaten the Jin army.Liu Yu's water army marched along the Yellow River, and sometimes the wind was so strong that the Jin army's ships were washed to the north bank by the water, and they were attacked by Wei soldiers.

Liu Yu sent sailors to the north bank to attack the Wei army, and the Wei soldiers fled. When the Jin army returned to the ship, they harassed the north bank again, making the Jin army run back and forth, unable to advance smoothly. Liu Yu sent a general with 700 soldiers and 100 chariots to the north bank, and formed a semi-circular formation along the bank. A white feather.Because this formation is shaped like a moon hook, it is called "Queyue formation". Wei Bing observed the formation of the Jin army from a distance, but he didn't understand what it meant, and he didn't dare to move.

After a while, someone in the middle chariot of the Jin army raised a white feather, and two thousand soldiers rushed out from both sides, carrying a hundred big bows, towards the chariot. Wei Bing looked at the formation and saw that it was not a big deal, so he gathered 30,000 cavalry to attack the Jin formation on the river bank.The bows and arrows on a hundred chariots in the Jin formation were all fired, but they still couldn't stop the Wei soldiers. Unexpectedly, the Jin army arranged more than a thousand spears behind the Queyue formation and mounted them on the big bow.This kind of spear is about three or four feet long, with a particularly sharp tip.When the Wei soldiers were attacking the Jin army, the soldiers of the Jin army beat the bow with a big hammer, and the spears flew towards the Wei army. Each spear could kill three or four Wei soldiers. Thousands of soldiers were shot dead at once.The other Wei soldiers didn't know how many such weapons there were behind the Jin army's formation. They were so frightened that they hugged their heads and ran around, collapsing across the board.The Jin army took advantage of the victory to pursue and killed a large number of Wei soldiers.

Liu Yu repelled the Wei army, opened the road to the west along the Yellow River, and moved westward smoothly.At that time, the infantry led by Wang Zhen'e and Tan Daoji had captured Luoyang and joined forces with Liu Yu's navy at Tongguan.Then Liu Yu sent Wang Zhen'e to attack Chang'an and destroy Hou Qin. After Liu Yu destroyed Hou Qin, he left his twelve-year-old son and Wang Zhen'e in Chang'an, and led his troops back to the south. A few years later, Emperor Jin'an died. Liu Yu thought the time was right, so he sent someone to persuade Emperor Gong of Jin who had just ascended the throne to abdicate.In 420 AD, Liu Yu ascended the throne and became emperor, changing the name of the country to Song.This is Emperor Wu of Song Dynasty.The Eastern Jin Dynasty ruled in the south for 104 years, and by this time it perished.