Established a thousand-year family from the end of Qin Dynasty

Chapter 451 Competing in the Central Plains (23)

five months later
Changan
"Your Majesty, we can't fight anymore. Civil uprisings have already occurred in Jizhou, and refugees have also begun to appear in Yanzhou, Qingzhou and other places. If the fighting continues, the scene of rebellion by refugees everywhere during Emperor Hui of Jin's time will repeat itself!"

"Your Majesty, there is another locust plague in Yuzhou, and there is no harvest. The conscription in Yuzhou can no longer be advanced."

"The Xianbei people and Huns in Bingzhou and other places in Liangzhou are ready to move, and they always want to restore their country. The most urgent task now is to make peace with Jin, and then do their best to deal with the barbarians who are refugees in the country."

"Yan State in Liaodong subsidizes Xianbei's rejuvenation and separatist forces in Youzhou, and provides soldiers, horses, money and food to Murong Yan State's rejuvenation organization. The veteran is afraid that the Jin State has not been defeated, and our Central Plains have been lost."

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

"Your Majesty, North 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, but because they did not have a strong naval force, they made little progress. For more than half a year, they only occupied a few counties.

The invincible cavalry of the Qin State roamed across the Central Plains, but they were ineffective when encountering the Yangtze River and Huaihe River.

Faced with the persuasion of the ministers, Fu Jian became more and more impatient: "The state of Jin will be destroyed by me soon, can't you be patient any longer? After a few months, I will completely destroy the state of Jin." , will naturally take a good rest, now that the state of Jin is still alive, what's the use of talking so much!"

Seeing that the Jiangling and Guangling battlefields could not continue to advance due to the obstruction of the Yangtze River and Huaihe River, Fu Jian decided to go to the newly opened Shouchun battlefield to open up the situation.

Shouchun is the last remaining big city of the Jin State north of the Yangtze River. To the south is Hefei, and next to it is the Feishui River. Through the Feishui River system, you can enter the Yangtze River waterway and attack Jiankang directly.

Therefore, taking Shouchun and Hefei, controlling the Feishui waterway, and threatening Jiankang became Fu Jian's goal.

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

On the Shouchun battlefield, Qin State had 25 troops and Jin State had 8 troops.

In order to resist the Qin State, the Jin State temporarily recruited tens of thousands of soldiers, [-] to block Yiling, [-] to guard Jiangling, [-] to guard Guangling, [-] to guard Jiankang, and [-] to fight Fujian on the Shouchun battlefield.

"No matter how you say it, 25 vs. 8, I have the advantage!" Fu Jian was full of confidence, and he sent Zhu Xu, the surrendered general of the Jin Kingdom, to Shouchun City to persuade the Jin defenders to surrender.

After Zhu Xu came to Shouchun City, he informed the details of Qin State one by one: "Qin State still has hundreds of thousands of troops recruiting and gathering in the Central Plains. Now the 25 are only the vanguard. Fu Jian himself is in the Chinese army camp opposite. , we must defeat the 25 Qin army with one effort, and it is best to capture Fu Jian alive, otherwise, once the follow-up hundreds of thousands of Qin troops arrive on the battlefield, I will be completely hopeless!"

Afterwards, Shouchun's guard quickly delivered this important information to Xie An.

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

Xie An asked Shouchun's defenders to give Fu Jian an ambiguous reply, which made Fu Jian mistakenly think that Shouchun would surrender. In this way, Fu Jian would not attack Shouchun for the time being, and Jin would have more time to make corresponding arrangements.

Sure enough, following the ambiguity of Shouchun's defender who seemed to surrender, 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 or not is the enemy's business, and whether you fight or not is your business. How can you temporarily suspend military operations just because the enemy may surrender, and miss the opportunity for nothing.

In the Battle of Pingjin in later generations, while letting Fu surrender, he continued to attack Tianjin. This is a reasonable military action. Whether the enemy surrenders or not is the enemy's business.

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

The so-called immediate recovery, even after several months, he still continued to perfunctory Fu Jian like this.

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

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

A few months later, Shouchun City was broken, and Shouchun's guard was captured.

But when he really faced the Shouchun guard who was playing tricks on him, Fu Jian actually forgot what he had been teased before, and once again showed benevolence and righteousness to the captives, trying to influence the other party with courtesy and virtuous corporals.

The captured Shouchun and other generals of the Jin State were silent, neither resisting nor submitting, they came to a non-violent non-cooperation, and only waited for the Jin army to come to rescue them.

Not only that, but Fu Jian also killed a surrendered general of the Jin State who had betrayed the State of Jin and disclosed the information of the State of Jin to himself, on the grounds of infidelity and injustice.

This operation is even more wrong, and they don't even understand the most basic united front value in military principles.

If you kill the person who voluntarily betrays and joins you, who will dare to defect and join you in the future?

Do you understand the value of the united front, do you understand the value of buying a horse with a thousand pieces of gold, don’t care if the other party is loyal or not, you can’t kill him, you can stop using him because the other party is unloyal, just give him some money to get rid of, but you must not directly killed.

For the Jin generals who would rather die than surrender, Fu Jian admired them, showed benevolence and righteousness to them, treated them with courtesy and corporal, and wanted to influence them.

Fu Jian wanted to kill the Jin generals who voluntarily surrendered, and he also told everyone how much he cared about China's loyalty. He was a well-deserved Chinese orthodoxy.

When Jiang Taigong Lv Shangchu established the Qi State on the coast of the East China Sea, he entertained those celebrities who voluntarily took refuge in Qi State with delicious food and drinks, and directly used various tortures to kill those old and young people of Yin Shang and Dongyi celebrities who would rather die than surrender. .

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

If it is a unified dynasty, of course you can belittle or even kill the disloyal surrenderers, establish a loyal image for yourself, and prevent your subjects from being unfaithful to you. For example, Qianlong did this. After unifying the world, It was only then that he came up with the biography of the second official to belittle those Han officials who voluntarily surrendered, so as to flaunt how much he cares about loyalty, so that his subjects should also be loyal to him.

But you have not yet unified, and you have started to belittle and kill those who voluntarily surrendered. Is it too hasty?Who would dare to take the initiative to take refuge in you in the future?
At this moment, Fu Jian, who has not yet unified, has already regarded himself as a unified monarch. A monarch without a unified monarch is doing what a unified monarch should do. This is arrogance and recklessness. .

Even if you want to establish loyalty and flaunt yourself as Chinese orthodox, you have to wait until after the unification, not before the unification.

Those who win are qualified to talk about benevolence, righteousness, propriety, wisdom and trustworthiness, and those who lose have already become ashes. As a separatist force, the first thing to consider is how to win, not whether doing so will affect the image after reunification.

Xie An was thinking about how to win every day, but Fu Jian was thinking about whether doing so would affect his image of benevolence and righteousness after winning.

(End of this chapter)