Chapter 451: Chasing in the Central Plains (Twenty-three)

Author: Immortal Grass Bean Curd

Chapter 451: Chasing in the Central Plains (Twenty-three)

five months later

Chang'an

"Your Majesty, we can no longer fight. Civil uprisings have already occurred in Jizhou, and refugees have begun to appear in Yanzhou, Qingzhou and other places. If we continue to fight, the scene of refugees revolting everywhere during the reign of Emperor Hui of Jin Dynasty will happen again!"

"Your Majesty, there is another locust plague in Yuzhou. There is no harvest. The recruitment of troops in Yuzhou can no longer be advanced."

"The Xianbei and Huns in Bingzhou and other places in Liangzhou are ready to move and want to regain their kingdom. The top priority now is to make peace with the Jin State and then make every effort to deal with the barbarian refugees in the country."

"The Yan State of Liaodong supported the Xianbei Restoration separatist forces in Youzhou and provided soldiers, horses, money and food to Murong Yan's restoration organization. I am afraid that our Central Plains will be lost before the Jin Kingdom is defeated."

"Your Majesty, there is a shortage of food in Guanzhong."

"Your Majesty, Northern Xuzhou is short of food."

"Your Majesty, Yizhou is short of food."

The Qin army held a stalemate with the Jin state in the Yangtze and Huaihe areas for more than half a year. However, because it did not have a strong navy, it made little progress. In most of the year, it only occupied a few counties.

Qin's invincible cavalry traveled across the Central Plains, but it was difficult to use it when it encountered the Yangtze and Huaihe Rivers.

Facing the admonitions of the ministers, Fu Jian became more and more impatient: "The Kingdom of Jin will be destroyed by me soon, can't you be patient any longer? In a few months, I will completely destroy the Kingdom of Jin.

, will naturally rest and recuperate well, now that the Jin Kingdom has not been destroyed, what is the use of talking so much!"

Seeing that Jiangling Battlefield and Guangling Battlefield were unable to advance due to the obstruction of the Yangtze River and Huaihe River, Fu Jian decided to go to the newly opened Shouchun Battlefield in person to open up the situation.

Shouchun was the last remaining large city of the Jin Kingdom north of the Yangtze River. To the south was Hefei and next to Feishui. Through the Feishui water system, you could enter the Yangtze River waterway and directly attack Jiankang.

Therefore, it became Fu Jian's goal to capture Shouchun and Hefei, control the Feishui waterway, and thus threaten Jiankang.

A few months later, Emperor Fu Jian of the Qin Dynasty arrived at the Shouchun battlefield with hundreds of civil and military officials, and personally controlled the soldiers to attack the city.

In the Shouchun battlefield, Qin had 250,000 troops and Jin had 80,000 troops.

In order to resist the Qin State, the Jin State temporarily recruited tens of thousands of soldiers, five thousand to block Yiling, 20,000 to guard Jiangling, 20,000 to guard Guangling, 5,000 to guard Jiankang, and 80,000 to prepare for a decisive battle with Fu in the Shouchun battlefield.

"No matter how you say it, 250,000 vs. 80,000, the advantage is mine!" Fu Jian was full of confidence. He asked Jin's surrender general Zhu Xu to go to Shouchun City to persuade the Jin's defenders to surrender.

After Zhu Xu came to Shouchun City, he told the details of the Qin State one by one: "The Qin State still has hundreds of thousands of troops recruiting and gathering in the Central Plains. Now these 250,000 are just the vanguard. Fu Jian himself is in the Chinese army camp opposite.

, we must defeat these 250,000 Qin troops in one go, and it is best to capture Fu Jian alive, otherwise, once the hundreds of thousands of Qin troops arrive on the battlefield, our great Jin Dynasty will be completely hopeless!"

Subsequently, Shouchun's guard quickly handed over this important information to Xie An.

Xie An, who was far away in Jiankang City, immediately made military deployments and took advantage of the disunity of the Qin army to formulate many plans that could affect the morale of the Qin army.

Xie An asked the Shouchun garrison to give Fu Jian an ambiguous reply, making Fu Jian mistakenly believe that Shouchun would surrender. In this way, Fu Jian would not attack Shouchun for the time being, and the Jin side would have more time to make corresponding arrangements.

Sure enough, after General Shouchun seemed to be ambivalent about surrendering, but gave a bunch of reasons why he could not surrender immediately, Fu Jian stopped attacking Shouchun and prepared to wait for Shouchun to open the city gate and surrender.

This is a typical military mistake. Whether the enemy surrenders is the enemy's business, and whether you fight or not is your business. How can you temporarily stop military operations just because the enemy may surrender, and miss the opportunity in vain?

In the later Battle of Pingjin, Fu surrendered while continuing to attack Tianjin. This was a reasonable military action. Whether the enemy surrendered or not was the enemy's business. Whether or not to fight was my business. We cannot let the enemy lead us by the nose.

After several months of wasting time in this way, every time Fu Jian wrote to ask Shouchun when he would surrender, Shouchun always replied: Just wait, it will be fine soon.

This so-called cure will come soon, but even after several months, Fu Jian continues to be treated perfunctorily.

It was not until the twelfth lunar month of this year that Fu Jian realized that he had been tricked. The other party did not want to surrender at all, but was just deliberately delaying time.

"I treated Shouchun with benevolence and righteousness, and promised them glory and wealth, but they treated me like a fool. How disgusting!" Fu Jian was furious and ordered the siege to continue.

A few more months passed like this, Shouchun city was destroyed, and Shouchun general was captured.

But when he really faced Shouchun Guardsman who was teasing him, Fu Jian actually forgot what he had been teased about before, and once again showed kindness to the prisoners, hoping to use Corporal Li Xian to influence the prisoners.

The captured Jin generals in Shouchun remained silent, neither resisting nor surrendering. They showed non-violence and non-cooperation, just waiting for the Jin army to come and rescue them.

Not only that, Fu Jian also killed a surrendered general of Jin who betrayed Jin and revealed information about Jin to him, on the grounds of disloyalty and unrighteousness.

This operation is even more wrong. It does not even understand the most basic value of united front in military principles.

If you kill the people who defected and came to seek refuge with you, who will dare to defect and come to seek refuge with you in the future?

Do you understand the value of united front? Do you understand the value of buying horse bones for thousands of gold? Don’t care whether the opponent is loyal or not, you can’t kill him. You can not reuse him because of his disloyalty, just give him some money to kill him, but you can’t do it directly.

Kill.

For the Jin generals who preferred death to surrender, Fu Jian admired them, showed them benevolence and righteousness, treated them with courtesy and courtesy, and wanted to influence them.

Fu Jian wanted to kill the Jin generals who surrendered on their own initiative, and also promoted to everyone how much he cared about China's loyalty, which was a well-deserved Chinese orthodoxy.

When Jiang Taigong Lu Shang first came to the coast of the East China Sea to establish the Qi State, he entertained those celebrities who took the initiative to join the Qi State with delicious food and drinks. For those who preferred death to surrender, the old and young of the Yin Shang Dynasty and Dongyi celebrities were directly tortured to death with various methods.

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Although Jiang Ziya's approach was not benevolent at all and was very cruel, it must be said that his method managed Qi well and reduced the forces opposing Qi a lot.

If it is a unified dynasty, of course it can degrade or even kill disloyal surrenderers to establish a loyal image for itself and prevent its subjects from being disloyal and unjust. For example, Qianlong did this. After unifying the world,

Only then did he come up with something like Erchen Zhuan to belittle those Han officials who surrendered voluntarily, in order to show off how much he cared about loyalty and to make his subjects also be loyal to him.

But before you can unify, you start belittling and killing those who voluntarily surrender. Is it too hasty? Who will dare to take the initiative to surrender to you in the future?

At this moment, Fu Jian has not yet unified the country, but he already regards himself as a unified monarch. A monarch without a unified country is doing the things that a unified monarch should do. This is arrogance and ignorance of life and death.

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Even if you want to establish loyalty and claim to be Chinese orthodoxy, you have to wait until after unification, not before.

Only those who win are qualified to talk about benevolence, justice, propriety, wisdom and trust, while those who lose have become ashes. As a separatist force, the first thing to consider is how to win, rather than whether doing so will affect the image after reunification.

Xie An thinks about how to win every day, but Fu Jian thinks about whether doing this will affect his image of benevolence and righteousness after winning.
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