The northern part of Yangzhou, north of the Yangtze River and south of the Huai River, was known for its prosperity in the past.
Today's Huainan can best be described as "white bones are exposed in the wild, and there are no roosters crowing for thousands of miles".
This was not caused by Cao Wei's tyranny after he occupied Huainan, but by years of constant fighting, which led to many Li Shu people being in chaos and migrating to avoid disaster.
For example, when Yuan Shu, who was born to be arrogant and extravagant, took control of Huainan, he imposed exorbitant levies and expropriations. As a result, many people in the Jianghuai area died of starvation. People ate each other and their bones were piled up.
After Yuan Shu deserved his death, his subordinates were left without support and were left to their own devices. For example, Li Shu, the prefect of Lujiang appointed by Sun Ce, attacked and killed Yan Xiang, the governor of Yangzhou, and ordered Mei Qian, Lei Xu, Chen Lan and others to gather tens of thousands of people to defend themselves.
The Jianghuai Outline was not preserved, and the common people of Li were in danger. They could only rely on the heroes to escape into the mountains and forests or avoid disasters elsewhere.
After the Battle of Chibi, the situation in the world was generally clear.
Cao Cao of the Wei Dynasty began to manage the land of Huainan. He appointed Liu Fu as the governor of Yangzhou, established state governance, and implemented good governance and cultivated fields to support the people. Therefore, many Li Shu people who escaped into the mountains and forests returned. However, the powerful commanders who gathered in Jianghuai and refused to surrender were supervised by Xiahou Yuan The troops broke through, some were defeated and died, and some took the troops with them and took the people to defect to other sides.
For example, Lei Xu from Lujiang led more than 50,000 soldiers and their families to Jingzhou to defect to the late emperor Liu Bei, who had just captured the four counties in southern Jingzhou.
However, Huainan, which had been in chaos for many times, did not allow the common people to live and work in peace and contentment.
Before the Battle of Xiangfan, there were many wars between Jiangdong and Cao Wei in Huainan.
At that time, Cao Cao of the Wei Dynasty sent many troops to Yongliang and Hanzhong. He also thought that it would be difficult for the navy to compete with Jiangdong, so he used the excuse that it would be difficult to rescue Huainan, which was surrounded by water networks. He ignored Jiang Ji's advice and forced all the people in the Jianghuai River to move there. Huaibei to avoid being used by Soochow.
This move destroyed Liu Fu's many years of hard work.
After several years of good governance, Liu Fufang brought more than 100,000 people to Wei and gathered in the Shouchun area.
However, as soon as Cao Cao's evacuation order came out, these common people were afraid of becoming the children of Huaibei's powerful rightists and the servants of the government in the fields. Therefore, they all fled to Wu with their families and gathered in Wancheng, Lujiang County and other places.
In other words, there are almost no people settling in the area from Hefei to Huai River today.
This situation also gave Jiangdong the convenience to send partial troops into Huainan in the plan of this insidious attack without worrying about being discovered by Li Shu and alerting the Wei army.
The purpose of this partial division entering Huainan was not to participate in the attack on Hefei or to besiege Shouchun City.
And it is not under the control of Lu Xun or Zhu Huan.
On the orders of Sun Deng, the crown prince of the Wu Kingdom, Jianye set off across the river and arrived at Quanjiao County (Jianghuai Hills) on the other side. The troops pointed directly at the plains between Hefei City and Yinling County - it was Cao Cao of the Wei Kingdom. Rui had previously issued an edict to restore the farming system of Wei Wu and Cao Cao, and asked Hu Zhi and Xia Houxian to set up farming sites in Yangzhou.
In other words, the intention of this partial army was to take advantage of the autumn harvest and the grain harvested in Wei's fields before being transferred elsewhere to plunder supplies to supplement the military.
In addition, it can be regarded as coordinating Sun Shao and Zhang Chengbu, and sharing the reinforcements from Qingxu and Qingzhou in Wei State to go south to Hefei.
To be more precise, it was a manifestation of Emperor Sun Quan's balancing act.
Because he is already over fifty.
It is urgent to train the prince's potential ministers and prepare for the prince's future succession and smooth transition.
After all, the world has been in chaos for many years, and people's hearts have long since changed.
Even Zhaolie Liu Bei, whose reputation for benevolence and righteousness was known all over the world, had rebellions in various counties in Nanzhong after his death.
No matter how conceited Sun Quan was, he could never think that he was more popular than Zhaolie Liu Bei, and he would not dare to place his hopes on the inheritance of the Sun family's foundation on the loyalty of Jiangdong officials.
Therefore, after he sent Zhuge Ke and Chen Biao to the front of Lu Xun's army, he also asked the prince Sun Deng, who was currently supervising the country, to send other Qiandi officials to Huainan to practice, gain some merit, and strive for success.
some reputation in the military.
Sun Deng did not have much military power. Apart from the necessary troops to guard Kyoto, he could only squeeze out more than 2,000 soldiers.
But there were four thousand partial troops rushing to the battlefield.
The reason was that the officials he sent out included Zhang Xiu, the second son of Zhang Zhao, and Gu Tan and Gu Cheng, the grandchildren of Prime Minister Gu Yong.
With the background of the Zhang and Gu families, it is easy to piece together the evidence of more than a thousand private soldiers.
Naturally, these three men had to go deep into the enemy's territory without even setting foot in battle. For safety reasons, Sun Quan also authorized Sun Deng to mobilize the garrison captain as the commander-in-chief.
The captain of the garrison cavalry school was Liu Zan.
The courtesy name is Zhengming, a native of Changshan, Kuaiji County.
When he was a county official when he was young, he once fought with Wu Huan, the bandit commander in yellow turban. He killed the bandit leader with his hand, but his foot was injured and the leg could not be bent or extended.
He has a fierce nature, and every time he sees the ancient generals' battles and attacks, he often sighs at the book. Because the world is in chaos and heroes are rising together, he hates being disabled and has no achievements, so he intends to cut his own legs with a knife to cure him.
Can walk without any problems.
My family doesn't allow it.
Liu Zan found a way to do it on his own, cut open the legs to see the bones, divided the flesh and stretched the tendons, causing the blood to flow profusely and he fainted and fell unconscious.
Fortunately, he was discovered by his family, treated and treated.
Later, if you live it, the old wounds will be healed, and you can still move forward!
Ling Tong heard about his deeds and asked to meet him. He was so surprised that he recommended him to Sun Quan and introduced him into the army.
When approaching the enemy, he must first be called to the sky, and he will sing in response to the sound, and the left and right will respond. Then he will go into battle, and the battle will be invincible. After he has accumulated many military exploits, Sun Quan will be honored with the honorary title of Tunqi Xiaowei.
Liu Zan had a strong nature and often gave advice on the pros and cons of current affairs. He was very outspoken and did not obey orders, so he was highly respected by Sun Quan.
The prince Sun Deng stayed in the capital to supervise the country, but Sun Quan asked him to lead his troops and stay in Jianye to assist him, advising on the pros and cons of the government and providing comprehensive protection.
Now that he is supervising Zhang Xiu, Gu Tan and Gu Cheng, there is no need to worry about their safety when they enter Huainan.
However, both Sun Quan and Sun Deng neglected something.
That is, Liu Zan used to be the vanguard in the battles, he did not hesitate to sacrifice his life in battle, and he did not hesitate to die in battle!
However, it is said that when Liu Zan's troops crossed the river and entered Quanjiao County, they marched diagonally westward for more than a hundred miles, but did not encounter a single Li Shu or Wei soldier. After marching for more than fifty miles, they came to the Wei army's field station, and then they attacked.
The more than 200 soldiers of the Wei army in the field did not dare to fight, so they all abandoned their weapons and surrendered. They received more than 3,000 stones of grain and fodder, and more than 300 people from the field.
The officers and soldiers of the Wu army were all happy and cheered, while Liu Zan stopped and looked west alone.
After the battle, the generals of the army held a meeting. Generals Gu and Zhang claimed that the victory was a success and that they should not be greedy for too much. They could divide their troops to protect the grain and fodder and return the prisoners to Jianye. The rest would go north to Yinling County to block the road and join Guangling Prefect Sun Shao and Zhang Cheng and other troops.
Just put on the momentum.
Leave a like and remain silent.
Everyone was surprised and asked.
The comment was an expression of his own opinion, claiming that the Wei army was lax and unprepared because of Jiangdong's disastrous defeat in Jingzhou in April in the summer and because they were busy with trivial matters such as counting the autumn harvest and warehousing it, and thought that this was the time to march in.
This is a God-given opportunity for everyone to make contributions and raise the prestige of Jiangdong!
After saying this, he spoke loudly and enthusiastically.
say:
"Gentlemen, Your Majesty and the Crown Prince have sent us to Huainan, not only so that you can make meritorious deeds before the battle, but also to benefit the war situation! We are unprepared now to go against Wei, and we can reach Hefei City by traveling a hundred miles to the west. I have a plan for you.
If you are willing to fight to the death, the city can be destroyed! I wonder if you, gentlemen, want to return home with a small victory, or do you want to work with me to destroy Hefei to repay the country and win the reputation of the world?"
