Chapter 24 It seems that the sky is about to change
On the territory of China, there are only two cities with the word "京" as their place names. One is Beijing, and the other is Nanjing. Beijing, now called Yanjing; Nanjing, now called Jiangning. In China a thousand years later, they face each other across the river, and their respective
As the political and cultural center of northern and southern China, we share this unique political courtesy. If you are lucky enough to come to Nanjing, you may be amazed by the majestic Xiaoling Mausoleum, wander through the ordinary alleys in the south of the city, or wander around the Qinhuai River.
The sound of lights and shadows wandering around this city is like a dialogue with history. How many traces of the Six Dynasties are engraved on the long and rolling city walls, how many romantic histories are hidden between the white walls and gray tiles, and in its air
In the middle, there is a faint fragrance of ink that lingers. If you must add a footnote to Nanjing, then it should be history first, and humanities second.
It has only been two thousand years since Nanjing was founded by Wu and Yue, but it has been called the "ancient capital of six dynasties". Later generations added the Southern Tang Dynasty, the early Ming Dynasty, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and the Republic of China to be called the "Ten Dynasties". The changing process of Nanjing's place names is itself a piece of history.
epitome of
For the history of China, the Yangtze River is by no means as simple as a natural chasm that crosses the east and west. Due to the natural barrier, many separatist regimes are governed along the river, forming China's unique history of division between the north and the south. This split situation has
The result often ends with the northern regime moving south to unify China. As a result, for the first time in Chinese history, a pattern of separation of the political center from the economic and cultural center appeared. While the powerful regime in the north was showing off its force and royal power, the civilization and civilization in the south were
Wealth is also shining brightly
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 to move south. As a result, the city was ravaged by war and moved south.
The descendants of the escaped gentry spent their last extravagant time here, and at the same time pushed the demeanor of scholars to an extreme. Most of the people born here were outstanding talents. They enjoyed landscapes, were good at poetry, liked drinking, and liked seclusion.
, even if it is not interested in politics, it is certainly not beneficial to the country, but it has become an infinite yearning for later generations of literati, and it has also injected a feminine quality into the character of Nanjing.
"The wild grass and flowers beside the Suzaku Bridge, the setting sun at the entrance of Wuyi Lane. In the old days, the swallows in front of Wang Xietang flew into the homes of ordinary people." Liu Yuxi mentioned in the poem "Wuyi Lane", which was located on the bank of Qinhuai River in Nanjing during the Eastern Jin Dynasty. This place was a place for dignitaries and dignitaries.
The place where they live together, and they usually come and go in black clothes and high shoes, so they are named "Wang Xie", which actually refers to Wang Dao and Xie An, both of whom are famous families in the Eastern Jin Dynasty. Wang Dao assisted Sima Rui in proclaiming the emperor, so he was called
"Zhongfu", a hereditary prince and his nephew Wang Xizhi also grew up in Wuyi Lane. He was a "sage of calligraphy" and later went to Kuaiji. There was Orchid Pavilion nearby. He led a group of scribes to "sip wine in the winding water" here. Everyone sat along the river and placed
Put a glass of wine on a plate and let the water flow over it. Whenever you meet someone, that person will drink and write poetry. Everyone will collect the poems and compile them into a collection. Wang Xizhi is recommended to preface it. With the help of wine, he completes it in one go. This is the "Preface to the Lanting Collection".
It is known as "the best running script in the world" and the Xie family has good relations with the Wang family. It was also the time when many celebrities came out during the Battle of Feishui.
Xie Lingyun is good at landscape poetry and has his own school, while Xie Tiao is highly praised by Li Bai. He said that "Penglai article Jian'an Gu, the small Xie in the middle is Qingfa"
But Nanjing, or Jinling, Jiangning... is a capital of sorrow.
At the end of the Spring and Autumn Period, King Wei of Chu established Jinling City in the area where Qingliang Mountain is now. 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 suppress the king's spirit. The ancients called copper gold, so-called purple gold.
That is red copper, also known as bronze, and the place where it is buried is called "Purple Mountain". After the First Emperor visited this place eastward, he saw that it had "the aura of a city", so he ordered people to dig ravines to divert water into the city to relieve the aura of the King of Jinling, and changed it to "
"Jinling" means "Moling", which means a place for herding horses. It was transformed from a place where royal aura gathered to a pasture. The history of Nanjing as a short-lived royal capital began here.
During the Three Kingdoms period, Sun Quan of the Eastern Wu Dynasty expanded the natural cliffs of Qingliang Mountain in the west of the city into Stone City, which is now Ghost Face City. Sun Quan used the mountain as the city and the river as the pond to control the natural dangers of the Yangtze River in order to protect Cao Wei from the north. He also changed "Moling" to
"Jianye" had great ambitions to establish the great cause of the emperor, and invited Zhuge Liang to climb the Stone City for a bird's-eye view. The latter couldn't help but feel that "Zhongfu, dragons, and tigers roost in Stone City, which is the residence of the true emperor." There is still Wuhou in Qingliang Mountain.
It was a pity that he was stationed in Mapo as an assistant. It was a pity that Sun Quan's imperial career was not completed, so he rested in the southeast corner of Pian'an in the Eastern Jin Dynasty after the Meihua Mountain in the eastern suburbs. The northern gentry who fled south gathered in Nanjing and decided to build a capital here, and changed the name to "Jianye".
"After "Jiankang", the Southern Dynasties Song, Qi, Liang, and Chen all established their capitals here. The dynasties changed so frequently that it was dizzying. The Southern Tang Dynasty, the early Ming Dynasty, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and the Republic of China had never appeared in Yunzheng's world.
Capitals were also briefly established here, but none lasted more than a century.
Time flies, and the lead has washed away Jiangning, a veritable "capital of sorrow". After six dynasties, countless heroes and powerful men competed under the city, and fell into the sand. Just like the mottled marks on the city bricks, they have become blurred under the wash of time.
, and the masterpieces of literati and poets can only add a bit of gloom to this city.
Gloomy, yes, boundless gloom. The entire Jiangning City has fallen into boundless gloom.
Lord Cao Rui, Secretary of the Ministry of War, and Marshal Cao are sitting in Jiangning and Zhejiang with a gloomy expression. The bandits are approaching day by day, and the war situation is out of control. Cao Rui's plan to concentrate his forces to defeat the bandits in one fell swoop has actually failed a month ago.
Although Wei still has more than 100,000 troops in Jiangning City, Cao Rui, the imperial envoy and general against thieves, has completely lost confidence in winning.
Under the situation where the Zhejiang bandits were pressing down on the border, there were many internal contradictions in the Jiangning camp. The generals who wanted to divide their forces to attack and the generals who wanted to gather the army were arguing endlessly. Although Cao Rui, the imperial envoy, repeatedly ordered the Central Army from all over the country to defend Jiangning, Zhejiang was finally defeated.
The bandit army launched an all-out attack. The Central Army in eastern Jiangxi, southern Jiangsu and the entire Zhejiang battlefield had too much to take care of itself. The Central Army in Lianghuai was blocked by the Zhejiang bandit army in Beishan and was unable to cross the river for reinforcements. There were only two groups in Hubei and Jiangxi.
A large number of reinforcements and some temporarily recruited soldiers from Zhejiang and Fujian arrived in Jiangning to guard. However, these small-scale reinforcements were unable to reverse the entire war situation because the growth rate of the number of Zhejiang bandits was too exaggerated. In just two months, the total number of Zhejiang bandits
The number of troops has reached more than 500,000, close to 600,000, and it is known to the outside world as a million-strong army! On the other hand, the Central Army has been getting smaller and smaller as it fights. Now the total strength of the Central Army in the battlefields of Jiangsu, Anhui, and Zhejiang is only 2
Around 100,000. However, at such a critical moment, the central court was still debating all day long on whether to re-enlist veteran military households and go south to quell the rebellion. It was finally decided on the recruitment, and how much money was spent.
We fought hard over the recruitment, but two months later, the so-called recruitment of veterans to go south was still empty talk, and not a single person was recruited.
Cao Rui had no choice but to order Zhang Jun, a radical who advocated dividing the troops to attack, to lead an army to attack the Zhejiang bandit army's outer defense line. However, after failing for a few days, he ordered Jiang Song and others from Huaibei to lead troops from Yangzhou to open a channel to rescue Jiangning.
The two armies fought fiercely at Yangzi Bridge. The Central Army of the Wei Dynasty suffered more than 10,000 casualties. Jiang Song fled back to Yangzhou with only a few cavalry. In order to ensure that the outskirts of Jiangning were not lost, Cao Rui organized the Battle of Jiaoshan. Zhang Jun asked Zhang He, the commander of the Jiangning capital, to lead the battle.
The troops were sent out of Zhenjiang in an attempt to control the south bank of the Yangtze River. Jiang Song from Yangzhou once again sent troops to Guazhou, cooperating from the north of the Yangtze River. He led the navy Chen troops to the Jiaoshan River east of Zhenjiang, and agreed to advance in three directions to fight the Zhejiang bandits.
However, Jiang Songbu of the Central Army in Yangzhou did not arrive on time, and Zhang He of Zhenjiang simply refused to send troops, leaving Zhang Jun alone to penetrate into the three major factions, including the general of the Zhejiang Bandit Army, the former Qinglong Sect's Qinglong Protector Yinlong, and the two protectors Suzaku and Xuanwu.
The guardian commanded the battle from a high position in Shigong Mountain, and ordered his brave generals to circle along the north bank of the Yangtze River to the rear of the central army. Two more armies attacked from the left and right sides of Jiaoshan. The Qinglong Sect's commander, Zhao Guang, rushed directly to the central army's formation of the Wei army. The Zhejiang bandits took advantage of the wind and fired rockets.
The ships of the Wei army caught fire one after another, and the battle situation suddenly became chaotic. In this battle, the entire Wei army was wiped out, and more than 700 warships were lost. In the defeat of Jiaoshan, the main force of the Wei army outside Jiangning was completely lost. Jiangning has become an isolated city. If no reinforcements arrive, the city's destruction is just around the corner.
Another half month later, Qinglong leader Ouyang Rui saw that the time had come, and finally made up his mind to attack Jiangning, and ordered his son, young leader Ouyang Cuo, to lead the main force of the Zhejiang bandit army to attack Jiangning.
After Ouyang Cuo was ordered, he summoned the attacking generals to deploy the strategy, and decided to divide the armies into three routes. The battle deployment to meet in Jiangning was on the month. Ouyang Cuo divided his troops into three routes to attack Jiangning, and the west route led the left envoy to lead a part of the Zhejiang bandit army.
The main force left Hangzhou and marched towards Liyang and Dusongguan; on the east route, Qinglong Protector Yinlong led the navy along the river and entered the sea, marching towards Haiyan and Kanpu; on the middle route, Ouyang Cuo led the armies on his own and led the land and sea armies out of Suzhou and towards Changzhou and Zhenjiang
March into
The commander of the West Route Army marched westward towards Liyang, but was resisted by the defenders of the Central Army of the Wei Dynasty. As a result, the Wei army lost troops and generals, and the remaining troops withdrew westward. The Zhejiang bandit army took advantage of the victory to pursue it, and defeated the Wei army again at the Yinlin East Dam in the southwest of Liyang.
During the pursuit, they were blocked by reinforcements from Hubei Province of the Wei Dynasty. The two sides fought fiercely. Later, the Zhejiang bandit army sent dead soldiers from the Qinglong Sect to rush and kill the army. The Wei army could not resist it and broke through and fled north.
In the Battle of Liyang, the Wei army lost more than 110 generals and nearly 40,000 soldiers. It suffered heavy casualties. In late that month, the Western Route Army pushed into Dusong Pass, a key pass leading to Jiangning. Wei guard Zhang Gan led his troops south to block the Zhejiang bandit army.
Fighting with the cavalry of the Zhejiang bandit army. Although the Wei army was an elite and powerful general, it only had one guard of 5,600 people, and they were all infantry. Although they fought bravely, they could not stop the Zhejiang bandits who were numerous and had a capable force composed of disciples of the Qinglong Sect.
The main force of the army was finally defeated. The leader Zhang Gan was killed. More than 3,000 soldiers were killed and injured. The rest were defeated. The Zhejiang bandits took control of the south gate of Jiangning.
Ouyang Cuo of the Central Route Army led his troops to attack Changzhou. Changzhou was the front line to defend Jiangning and was the key to the Zhejiang bandit army's entire plan to capture Jiangning. After Ouyang Cuo sent troops to defeat the Wei reinforcements, he personally directed the attacking Zhejiang bandit army to build a high platform in the south of the city.
He placed earthen cannons on the platform and blasted into the city, and fired rockets into the city. Changzhou city was a sea of fire. Ouyang Cuo ordered the Zhejiang bandit army to set up ladders and rope bridges to attack the city. Changzhou defender Yao Shi led the soldiers to attack the city.
After a bloody battle, they finally failed because they were outnumbered and had no foreign aid. Yao Shi, Wang Jie and others were killed in battle.
At this point, the main remaining force of the Central Army led by Cao Rui to defeat the thieves was trapped in Jiangning
