Chapter 24 It seems that the sky is about to change
On the territory of China, only two cities can use the word "Beijing" as place names. One is Beijing, and the other is Nanjing, Beijing, now called Yanjing; Nanjing, now called Jiangning, China, thousands of years later, they are across the river, each of which is the politics of northern and southern China. The Cultural Center shares this unique political treatment. If you are lucky enough to come to Nanjing, you may be surprised by the majestic majestic and majestic of Xiaoling Mausoleum, or linger in the ordinary alleys in the south of the city, or wander in the sound of the oars and lights of Qinhuai wandering around this city, just like a dialogue with history, there are many traces of the Six Dynasties engraved on the winding walls, and there are so many romantic history hidden between the white walls and gray tiles. There is a faint fragrance of ink in its air. If you must add a footnote to Nanjing, then it should be the first to recommend history and humanities.
Nanjing has been built in Wu and Yue for only two thousand years, but it is called the "Ancient Capital of the Six Dynasties". Later generations have added the Southern Tang Dynasty. In the early Ming Dynasty, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and the Republic of China were called the "Ten Dynasties". The process of the change of Nanjing place names is itself a microcosm of history.
For Chinese history, the Yangtze River is not as simple as a natural barrier that runs across the east and west. Due to natural barriers, many separatist regimes have been ruled by rivers, forming a unique history of division between north and south confrontation. The result of this split situation is often caused by the northern regimes leading the way south and unifying China. In the first time in Chinese history, a pattern of separation between the political center and the economic and cultural center has appeared. While the strong regimes in the north show off their military power and royal power, the civilization and prosperity of the south are also shining with brilliant brilliance.
The temperament of the city is closely related to its history. During the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, Nanjing was undoubtedly the most important political and cultural center in southern China. Almost all northern regimes used the capture of Nanjing as a strategic springboard for the southward movement. Therefore, the descendants of the gentry who were ravaged by war and fled south squandered their last extravagant time here, and also pushed the demeanor of scholars to the extreme. Most of the born here were extraordinary talents. They enjoyed mountains and rivers, were good at poetry, liked to drink, and were very secluded. They did not intend to do politics, which was of course of useless to the country, but became the infinite yearning of later literati, and also injected feminine characteristics into the character of the city of Nanjing.
"Wild grass and flowers beside the Zhuque Bridge, the sunset at the Wuyi Lane is set in the old time. Swallows in front of Wang Xie Hall flew into the homes of ordinary people." Liu Yuxi mentioned "Wuyi Lane" in his poem was in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, during the Eastern Jin Dynasty, which was a place where high officials and nobles lived. They usually went in and out in black, so they were named "Wang Xie" and actually referred to Wang Dao and Xie An. Both were famous families of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, Wang Dao was called "Zhongfu" because he assisted Sima Rui to be emperor. Wang Xizhi, his nephew of the Duke and Marquis, also grew up in Wuyi Lane. He was later appointed as the "Sage of Calligraphy". There was Lanting nearby. He led a group of scholars here to "Qu River Flow".
", everyone sat along the river, placed a glass of wine on a plate, and flowed it with water. Whenever they met someone, this person would drink and do poetry. Everyone compiled a collection of poems and selected Wang Xizhi as the preface. He used the help of wine and completed it in one go. This was for the "Preface to Lanting Collection", known as "the world's number one running script". The Xie family and the Wang family had a close relationship. It was also the famous scholars who came out of the battle of Feishui. Xie An had the style of "Jingyi defeating the enemy". His nephew Xie Xuan was a famous general in the Eastern Jin Dynasty. Xie Lingyun was good at landscape poetry and formed his own school. Xie Tiao was praised by Li Bai, so he was very praised by Li Bai. The so-called "Penglai's articles on Jian'an bones, and Xiao Xie was also clear in the middle."
But Nanjing, or Jinling, Jiangning... is a city of Aidu
At the end of the Spring and Autumn Period, King Wei of Chu set up a Jinling City in the area of Qingliang Mountain. This is the origin of Nanjing’s ancient name "Jinling". At the same time, he also ordered people to bury "Purple Gold" in the northeast of the city to maintain the king's spirit. The ancients called copper gold. The so-called purple gold is purple copper, which is also bronze. The buried place was called "Purple Gold Mountain". After the Emperor went east to visit, he saw that it had "the energy of the capital", so he ordered people to dig gullies to draw water into the city to drain the royal energy of Jinling, and changed "Jinling" to "Moling", which means a place where horses are shepherded, and from the place where the royal energy gathers into a pasture. Nanjing's history as a short-lived royal capital began here.
During the Three Kingdoms period, Sun Quan of the Eastern Wu expanded into a stone city based on the natural cliffs of Qingliang Mountain in the west of the city. That is, the current ghost face city Sun Quan used the mountain as the city and the river as the pond to control the natural danger of the Yangtze River. In order to seek the northern empire of Cao Wei, he also changed "Moling" to "Jianye", and had the ambition to establish the great cause of the emperor. He also invited Zhuge Liang to climb the stone city to a bird's eye view. The latter could not help but feel "Zhong Fu Longpan, Shicheng Tiger Sides, and the real emperor's house". It is a pity that Wu Hou was still stationed in Mapo in Qingliang Mountain.
Before the year, before the Emperor's career was completed, Sun Quan was buried in the southeast corner of the eastern suburbs, the eastern Jin Dynasty, and the northern gentry fled south, gathered in Nanjing, and decided to build the capital here and changed "Jianye" to "Jiankang". After that, the Southern Song, Qi, Liang, and Chen all built the capital here. The frequent changes of dynasties made people dizzy. Later, the Southern Tang Dynasty, which had never appeared in Yunzheng's world, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and the Republic of China, also briefly built the capital here, but not more than a hundred years.
Time flies, and the dew washes away the veritable "Aihu" of Jiangning. After six dynasties, countless heroes and powerful men competed under the city, and they fell into the sand. They were like mottled marks on the bricks. They were already blurred under the washing of time, and the masterpieces of literati and poets can only add a bit of gloom to the city.
Gloomy, yes, the boundless gloomy of Jiangning City has fallen into boundless gloom
Minister of War Cao Rui, Lord Cao, Marshal Cao, was sitting in a gloomy face, Jiangning, Zhejiang bandits were approaching, and the situation was getting out of control. Cao Rui's plan to concentrate troops to defeat the thieves in one fell swoop was actually declared a month ago. Although there are more than 100,000 troops in Jiangning City, Cao Rui, the imperial envoy, has completely lost the confidence to win.
Under the situation of Zhejiang bandits being overwhelmed, there were many internal conflicts within the Jiangning camp, and half of the generals who demanded division of troops to attack and the gathering of troops each accounted for half. Although the imperial envoy Cao Rui repeatedly ordered the central troops from all over the country to enter Jiangning, the Zhejiang bandit army was in full attack, and the central troops in eastern Jiangxi, southern Jiangsu and the entire Zhejiang battlefield were unable to take care of themselves, while the central troops in the two Huaihe River were blocked by the Zhejiang bandit army in Beishan and could not cross the river to help. There were only one part of Hubei, one part of Jiangxi, two small reinforcements and Zhejiang, and some temporary recruits of Fujian arrived in Jiangning to guard, but these small-scale reinforcements could not reverse the entire war situation at all. Because the number of Zhejiang bandits increased, the number of troops in Zhejiang increased.
In just two months, the total force of the Zhejiang bandits has reached more than 500,000, close to 600,000, and it is known to be a million troops to the outside world! On the other hand, the Central Army is fighting less and less. Now the total force of the Central Army in the battlefields of Jiangsu, Anhui and Zhejiang provinces is only about 200,000. However, at such a critical moment, the central court has been debating all day long whether to re-summon the old military households and go south to quell the rebellion. Finally, it has been decided to recruit them, and they have had a lot of fun in how much money to recruit them. As a result, two months have passed, and the so-called recruitment of veterans is still empty talk, and no one has been summoned.
Cao Rui could not, so he could only order Zhang Jun, a radical sect who advocated division of troops to attack the outer defense line of the Zhejiang bandit army. However, a few days later, Jiang Song and others from Huaibei led troops from Yangzhou to open up the passage to rescue Jiangning. The two armies fought fiercely at Yangzi Bridge. More than 10,000 people were killed or injured in the Central Army of the Wei Dynasty. Jiang Song only fled back to Yangzhou to ensure that the periphery of Jiangning was not lost. Cao Rui organized the battle of Jiaoshan Zhang Jun to ask Jiangning commander Zhang He to lead troops out of Zhenjiang to control the south bank of the Yangtze River. Jiang Song in Yangzhou sent troops again to Guazhou. He cooperated from Jiangbei and led his navy to fight the Jiaoshan River east of Zhenjiang. He agreed to keep pace with the three routes and fight with the Zhejiang bandit army.
However, Jiang Song's unit of the Central Army in Yangzhou did not arrive on time. Zhang He from Zhenjiang simply refused to send troops, causing Zhang Jun to go deep into the Zhejiang bandit army generals. The three guardians, including the Qinglong Cult Qinglong Guardian, Yinlong, Zhuque, and Xuanwu, commanded the battle at high altitude in Shigongshan. He ordered his brave generals to circumnavigate along the north bank of the Yangtze River to the back of the Central Army. Two armies attacked from the left and right sides of Jiaoshan. The commander of the Qinglong Cult Zhao Guangzhi rushed to the Wei Central Army's Central Army's formation, Zhejiang bandits sailed on the wind and set off rockets. The Wei army's ships caught fire, and the formation was suddenly in chaos. In this battle, the entire Wei army was wiped out, and more than 700 warships were lost. Jiaoshan was defeated. The main army of Jiangning in the Great Wei Dynasty was completely lost. Jiangning had become an isolated city. If no reinforcements arrived, the city was about to break out.
Half a month later, the leader of the Qinglong Sect Ouyang Rui saw that the time had come, and finally made up his mind to break through Jiangning, and ordered his son, Ouyang Cuo, to lead the main force of the Zhejiang bandit army to reach Jiangning.
After Ouyang Cuo received the order, he summoned the deployment strategy of attacking generals and determined that the combat deployment of the army was divided into three routes. The month of the battle deployment in Jiangning was. Ouyang Cuo divided his troops into three routes to attack Jiangning. The left envoy led the troops in the west and led some of the main forces of the Zhejiang bandit army out of Hangzhou and towards Liyang and Dusong Pass. The east and the Qinglong guardian Yinlong led the navy along the river and into the sea, towards Haiyan and Yanpu. The middle and Ouyang Cuo led the army himself and led the navy and land armies out of Suzhou, towards Changzhou and Zhenjiang.
The commander of the Western Route Army advanced westward and headed straight to Liyang, and was resisted by the defenders of the Central Army of the Great Wei. As a result, the Great Wei army lost its troops and lost its generals. The remnants of the Great Wei army retreated to the west to pursue the victory. They defeated the Great Wei army again in Yinlin Dongba, southwest of Liyang. The Zhejiang bandits were blocked by reinforcements from Hubei in the pursuit. The two sides fought fiercely. Later, the Zhejiang bandits sent Qinglong Cult to rush to kill, but the Great Wei army could not resist and broke through and fled north.
In the Battle of Liyang, the Great Wei army lost more than 110 generals and schoolmen, nearly 40,000 soldiers, and heavy casualties in the Western Route Army forced into Dusong Pass, a key pass leading to Jiangning in late that month. Zhang Gan, the guard general of the Great Wei army led his troops south to block the Zhejiang bandit army and fought with the Zhejiang bandit cavalry. Although the Great Wei army was an elite general, there was only one guard of 5,600, and they were all infantry. Although they fought bravely, it was difficult to stop the large number of people and the main force of the Zhejiang bandit army formed by the disciples of the Qinglong Sect, they were finally defeated. The main general Zhang Gan was killed, and more than 3,000 soldiers were killed and injured, and the rest were dispersed. The Zhejiang bandits controlled the southern gate of Jiangning.
The middle army Ouyang Cuo led his troops to attack Changzhou. Changzhou was the front line to protect Jiangning and the key to the entire plan of Zhejiang bandits to capture Jiangning. After Ouyang Cuo sent troops to defeat the reinforcements of the Great Wei Dynasty, he personally directed the siege of Zhejiang bandits to build a high platform in the south of the city, placed the earth cannon on the platform and bombed the city. He then shot into the city with rockets. There was a sea of fire in Changzhou. Ouyang Cuo ordered Zhejiang bandits to build a ladder and attack the city on the rope bridge. Zhejiang bandits attacked the city. Yao Shi, the defender of Changzhou, led his soldiers to fight bloody battles. In the end, he failed because he was outnumbered and had no foreign aid. Yao Shi, Wang Jie and others were killed.
At this point, the central army led by Cao Rui was trapped in Jiangning
God, it seems to be changing
Chapter completed!