(PS: This chapter mainly tells the background story of the Battle of Weishui, and those who don't like or understand this history can skip it directly.) ）

On June 16, all major media in China were in a prominent position, even on the front page, reporting in detail the news that the Stubborn Stone City was the suzerainty of the Great Xia Dynasty, pushing the heated discussion of players to a climax.

At this moment, a system announcement suddenly spread all over China.

"System announcement: China has successfully promoted 30 second-level county towns, triggering the campaign system, and the seventh battle [Battle of Huangshui] will officially start in three days, so stay tuned. Friendly reminder: The Battle of Huangshui is a non-mandatory campaign scenario mission, and only territories promoted to a second-level county are eligible to sign up. ”

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Today, there are no more than 50 surviving territories in the wilderness of China, and the lowest level is already a first-class county town, and the second-level county town is the backbone. As for Di Chen and the others, they had already promoted their titles to first-class marquises, and promoted their respective territories to third-class counties early.

It's just that a first-class marquis to a duke is a big hurdle, not to mention the emperor dust, even the merit value of the phoenix prisoner is only more than 400,000, which is less than half of the duke's needs.

The birth of a second capital city in China seems to be far away.

For the battle of Weishui, Ouyang Shuo's senses were quite complicated. In the previous life, the development of China was far less rapid than in this life, and before Ouyang Shuo was reborn, the Battle of Weishui was the last battle.

It also means that for the next battle, Ouyang Shuo can no longer be prophetic.

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The Battle of Weishui took place in 383 AD, the former Qin sent troops to attack the Jin, and fought in the Huishui, and finally the Eastern Jin Dynasty defeated the 1.12 million former Qin army with only 80,000 troops.

The Former Qin, which had absolute superiority, was defeated by the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and the country also declined and perished, and the northern ethnic groups broke away from the rule of the Former Qin and split into several regimes dominated by the Later Qin and the Later Yan. The Eastern Jin Dynasty took advantage of this northern expedition and pushed the border line to the Yellow River, and there was no foreign invasion in the Eastern Jin Dynasty in the following decades.

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To explain the Battle of Weishui clearly, it needs to be placed in the special historical context of the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties.

The Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, also known as the Three Kingdoms, the Two Jin Dynasties and the Sixteen Kingdoms, from Cao Pi to the Sui Dynasty to destroy Chen and unify China, a total of 369 years.

This period was the most frequent period of regime change in Chinese history, with long-term secession, continuous wars, and the alternation of more than 30 large and small dynasties in more than 300 years.

It is also in this special period that the rise of metaphysics, the flourishing of Taoism, the import of Buddhism and the invasion of Persian and Greek cultures, many new cultural factors influence each other and penetrate each other.

This period is also a new period of transformation of the feudal dynasty system, and its position in history is no less than that of the pre-Qin, and the Sui and Tang dynasties were gradually developed and shaped during this period, influencing until the Northern Song Dynasty.

In 265 AD, Sima Yan replaced Cao Wei to establish a new regime, the country name was Jin, and the capital was Luoyang, ending the establishment of the Three Kingdoms and reunifying the world.

It's a pity that this unified dynasty was only a flash in the pan after all.

After the destruction of Wu, the nobles of the Western Jin Dynasty were extravagant and corrupt, the political style was dark, and the powerful group of the family was in power.

During this period, a large number of nomadic tribes moved inward and were taken in as slaves by the big families. At that time, foreigners in Guanzhong and Liangzhou accounted for half of the local population.

Due to the large number of immigrants, it laid the groundwork for the fall of the Western Jin Dynasty and the Wuhu Rebellion.

In 299 A.D., the Western Jin Dynasty caused the rebellion of the eight kings because of the struggle for the throne, which lasted for seven years, the vitality was greatly damaged, and the various nationalities who moved inward took the opportunity to raise troops, resulting in the tragedy of the five chaos in China, and a large number of people crossed south with the clan.

Wuhu Chaohua began from the fall of the Western Jin Dynasty to the unification of the north by the Xianbei Northern Wei Dynasty, also known as the "Yongjia Rebellion", "Central Plains Land Sinking", "Central Plains Falling" and so on.

This period was a disaster for the Han nation, and the north and south of the world were divided and there was a long-term confrontation.

"Wuhu" mainly refers to the Xiongnu, Xianbei, Qian, Qiang, Di five Hu tribes, before the battle of Weishui, Qin Emperor Fu Jian, is born in the Wuhu Di tribe.

In 357 A.D., Fu Jian, the king of the East China Sea, launched a coup d'état, deposed the former Qin Emperor Fu Sheng, ascended the throne, and called the "Great Qin Heavenly King", changed the name of the year to Yongxing, and implemented amnesty.

In the following nearly 30 years, a generation of male lord Fu Jian reused Wang Meng and others to enrich the country and strengthen the army, successively swept away the former Yan, the former Liang and the Dai, and finally unified the north, forming a pattern of confrontation between the north and the south with the Eastern Jin Dynasty.

Fu Jian was an excellent monarch, and no emperor of the Jin Dynasty was far from being able to compare with Fu Jian.

During the destruction of Qianyan, Qianliang and the Three Kingdoms, Fu Jian never killed those captured emperors and generals, and gave them very high treatment.

This may be due to Fu Jian's generous personality, but it is more likely to be based on policy considerations.

Because the Di ethnic group is a small ethnic group in the north, how to control the other ethnic groups is a big problem. Faced with this situation, Fu Jian did not want to provoke turmoil by killing foreign leaders, and preferred to control them with some tricks, and even gave those leaders considerable military power.

Among them are Murong Chui, Yao Chang and others.

Ironically, after the defeat of Qianqin in the Battle of Weishui, Murong Chui fled back to Qianyan's hometown to restore the country and claim the king. Yao Chang also re-emerged, eventually killing Fu Jian.

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In 375 AD, Wang Meng died, and before he died, he said to Fu Jian: "Although Jin is secluded and ugly, Wu Yue is Zhengshuo. Kindness and good-neighborliness are also the treasure of the country. After the ministers are gone, I am willing not to take Jin as a picture. Xianbei, Qiang, my hatred will eventually be troubled, and it is advisable to gradually get rid of it so that the society can be harmed. ”

Wang Meng's advice is reasonable.

After destroying Qianyan, Qianliang and the Three Kingdoms of Dai one after another, Qianqin suddenly obtained a huge amount of loot, but it was not easy to digest this achievement.

Assimilation and integration between races takes time.

The conquest of northern China by the tiny Di tribe was like a snake swallowing an elephant. It stands to reason that the snake's priority is to work hard to secrete stomach acid and digest the elephant. It's obviously not a good idea to run and swallow a rhinoceros when it's not digested.

Wang Meng was worried about the snake's digestion ability, so he had the previous words of advice.

However, Fu Jian's rise is a history of continuous success, which gives Fu Jian a strong self-confidence, and he does not believe that his good fortune will end.

Fu Jian happily thought: "It's no problem to swallow another rhinoceros." ”

The unification of the world is a huge temptation, and Fu Jian cannot resist this temptation. Therefore, seven years after Wang Meng's death, Fu Jian decided that the time was ripe and decided to attack the Eastern Jin Dynasty.

In 378 AD, the Former Qin stepped up its offensive against the Eastern Jin Dynasty.

In that year, the former Qin used 170,000 troops to attack the Eastern Jin Dynasty in four ways, and Xiangyang City fell after a year of hard defense, and Zhu Xu, the assassin of Yongzhou in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, was captured.

According to Fu Jian's practice of reusing prisoners, Zhu Xu was absorbed into the former Qin officials.

This Zhu Xu did not give up, but acted as a high-level spy, and played a great role in the later battle of Weishui.

In 383 A.D., the former Qin Emperor Fu resolutely devoted the strength of the whole country to conquer the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and ordered the army to be levied nationwide according to the ratio of one out of ten men, and all horses in the country, whether public or private, were to be requisitioned for the use of the expeditionary force.

In this way, an army of 870,000 was formed, of which 270,000 were cavalry alone. In addition, there are 250,000 vanguard troops led by General Fu Rong, with a total of 1.12 million troops.

At that time, the total population of the Eastern Jin Dynasty was only three or four million, and there were only about 100,000 soldiers fighting in the war. It's just one point, compared with the million-strong army temporarily transferred by the former Qin, the combat power of the 100,000-strong army of the Eastern Jin Dynasty is several levels higher.

The main force of this army is the Beifu Army, which is mainly a homeless armed group.

Why the homeless?

After the fall of the Western Jin Dynasty, the northern refugees moved into the south. Some of the displaced people entered the south of the Yangtze River to live, became vassals of the gentry and landlords, and became ordinary people. But there are still many displaced people who live north of the Yangtze River, and unlike those who run to farm for large households, they have their own organizations and arms.

In ancient times, it was not easy to flee, and there were dangers everywhere.

When people flee, they always wear the best clothes on their bodies, and hide the most valuable things in their packages, which becomes the best target for robbery.

In troubled times, bandits are rampant, and it is common for bandits to be stripped naked and still go to the side of the road. The rebels are also where they are, and it is their duty to see the refugees rob.

In addition to bandits and rebels, even the officials of the Jin Dynasty had the idea of fighting the displaced people.

For example, Sima Yi, the king of Xiyang in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, asked his subordinates to pretend to be mountain thieves and openly rob the road in Hubei to rob these homeless people. There are more than one or two black-hearted princes who do this business, and it has almost become a promising sunrise industry. Even the famous Zu Ti, the general of the Northern Expedition, also did this.

When Zu Ti first arrived in Jiangnan, he didn't have much property. One day, he invited a lot of adults to his home as guests, displayed a lot of treasures, and said: "Don't be surprised, I just went to Nantang by chance yesterday to do a vote." ”

It stands to reason that Zu Ti is not a bad person, and later led the army to the Northern Expedition and died in Henan, the locals set up an ancestral hall for him, and many people burned incense and worshiped him.

The key is that the temptation to do this is too great, a group of fat sheep lying outside, how can they be willing to let it go in vain? Anyway, if you have a knife and a gun in your hand, you can rob it for nothing, who won't rob it for nothing?

As for whether these sheep will have difficulties in life after they are robbed, who can care so much?

Even refugees rob each other, and unarmed refugees can easily fall victim to their own kind.

In such a situation, the homeless people, under the command of the chief, organize themselves, and I will fight with you to the end regardless of who you are or who dares to run to grab things.

These leaders became the "outcasts."

In this way, the displaced people have become a relatively independent armed force.

At the same time, most of the southbound refugees are people who have gone through turmoil and have developed some skills, and they are more powerful than those who have been farming at home and paying rent all their lives.

It would be a shame not to have them to fight.

In 377 AD, Xie Xuan sheltered a large number of northern refugees in Jingkou and established the Beifu Army.

Under the rectification of Xie Xuan, a qualified general, the Beifu soldiers trained hard for several years, and soon became the most elite unit in the Eastern Jin Dynasty and the most elite unit in the whole of China at that time.

Just six years after Xie Xuan formed the Beifu Army, the Battle of Weishui began.

To be sure, Fu Jian levied one out of ten men, which was not too high at the time, and it was not uncommon for a higher proportion to be higher.

However, Fu Jian was engaged in levy and distribution within the entire former Qin Empire, from Hebei to Sichuan, from Shandong to Gansu, according to this proportion, which would cause huge problems.

There were no railways, no trucks, and no more horse-drawn carriages for these soldiers, who could only travel on two legs. Under normal circumstances, if a person takes nothing, walks empty-handed, walks for 8 hours a day, and the road is very well repaired, then he may be able to walk 40 kilometers.

But as a soldier, you always have to bring some belongings, and the road may not be so smooth.

According to historical sources, Alexander the Great's army could travel about 25 kilometers a day. The armies of the Roman Empire were generally able to travel 25 kilometers, and even more than 30 kilometers when they were particularly fast.

But the army of the former Qin was not a professional soldier with long-term training, and it was quite rare for them to be able to walk 20 kilometers. At that time, it was a troubled time, and it is estimated that the road will not be well maintained.

If you cross the river, you will be even more dumbfounded, and if you don't have a bridge, you will have to wait for the ferry. Even if these difficulties are ignored, it will take two months for a northwestern soldier to rush to the Huai River valley.

The problem was that Fu Jian's preparations for the war were rather hasty. In July, Fu Jian issued an order for the requisition, which, according to common sense, would take a certain amount of time to reach all parts of the country, and then the local officials would have to spend a considerable amount of time to carry it out, and it would take nearly a month for the armies to be ready for action.

But Fu Jian felt that time was running out.

On the second day of the eighth month, Fu Jian sent a total of 250,000 infantry and cavalry of Yangping Gong Fu Rong Governor Zhang Hao, Murong Chui and others as the vanguard, and appointed Yao Chang, the assassin of Yanzhou, as the general of Long Xiang to supervise the military of Yi and Liangzhou.

On the eighth day of August, Fu Jian set out from Chang'an for the battlefield, and the main forces were drawn one after another.

In September, Fu Rong led a vanguard force of 250,000 people to Yingkou in the Huaihe River Valley, Fu Jianzhong's army reached Xiangcheng, Liangzhou's army reached Xianyang, Zitong Taishou Pei Yuanluo led 70,000 sailors from Bashu to the east, and the troops of Youzhou and Jizhou also arrived in Pengcheng.

At this point, the war has officially begun.

And at this time, have the armies of all places reached the designated battlefield? If you count the time, it will definitely be too late. According to historical records, when Fu Jian arrived in Xiangcheng, the army of Gansu had just arrived in Xianyang.

Armies across the country were marching to the assembly areas, and the war had begun.

What's even more ironic is that before they reach the battlefield, the battle of the river is over. Their whole role was to run around northern China, consuming a lot of food and clogging roads everywhere.

It can be said that the defeat of Fu Jian in the Battle of Weishui was as early as when he did not listen to Wang Meng's dying words, ignored the opposition of Fu Rong and other ministers, and did not listen to the persuasion of the famous monk Shi Dao'an, the crown prince Fu Hong, the prince Fu Xu, and even the favorite concubine Mrs. Zhang.

Qin's defeat before the Battle of Weishui was no accident.