However, Yang Jian did not attack Chen State immediately. In 584, Chen State had not yet been completely defeated by Chen Shubao. In addition, there was the natural chasm of the Yangtze River, so Yang Jian continued to implement the land equalization system and the rent-to-labor system, and established three provinces and six ministries in the central government.
system, implement measures such as state and county systems in local areas, reform the government and military system, etc., in order to facilitate the development of social economy, strengthen centralization of power, and improve the combat effectiveness of the army.
In 585 (the fifth year of Kaihuang in the Sui Dynasty, the third year of Nanchen Zhide, and the twenty-fourth year of Tianbao in Xiliang), Yang Jian appointed Yang Su, Gong of Qinghe, as the general manager of Guangzhou, and planned a strategy in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River. At the same time, within three years, hundreds of thousands of people were mobilized
Repaired the Great Wall around Shuofang (Zhiyanlv, present-day Nanbaichengzi, Wushen Banner, Inner Mongolia) and Lingwu (Zhihuile, southwest of present-day Lingwu, Ningxia), and built dozens of forts on the dangerous eastern edge of Shuofang to strengthen the northern border defense
, ensuring that the rear will be worry-free when advancing south.
In the seventh year of Emperor Kaihuang's reign (587), Xiao Cong, the later lord of the Western Liang Dynasty, was deposed and occupied Jiangling. The Western Liang Dynasty was destroyed. The power of the Sui State had crossed the Yangtze River and was forced to the doorstep of the Chen State. At this time, Nanchen was also conquered.
Chen Shubao was almost defeated. The forces of the Sui Kingdom were at his doorstep, but he did not attract enough attention from the court.
In March of the eighth year of Emperor Kaihuang's reign (588), Yang Jian issued an edict, listing Chen Shubao's crimes and sending twenty seals to expose his crimes. He distributed 300,000 copies of the edict in Jiangnan to win over people's hearts. In October of the same year, he set up a trip to Huainan.
The province was located in Shouchun, with King Yang Guang of Jin as Shangshu Ling to coordinate all the troops and horses, and Gao Xi as marshal Chang Shi to decide the march strategy, leading eighty generals and 518,000 soldiers to march south.
In addition to frontal combat, before the march, Chen envoys were detained and all contacts were cut off to protect military secrets, and a large number of spies were sent to sneak into Chen territory to carry out sabotage and disruptive activities.
However, Chen Shubao did not accept the advice of his generals, relied on the "Yangtze River natural moat" and neglected defense. In order to celebrate the Yuanhui (i.e. Spring Festival), he actually ordered to guard Jiangzhou (the present day Jiujiang, Jiangxi Province) and South Xuzhou (the present day Zhenjiang, Jiangsu Province).
)'s two sons led the warships back to Jiankang, making Jiang's defense even weaker.
In December, the Sui army in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River launched the first attack.
I don’t know if you still remember, but I mentioned earlier that when the North attacked the South, because they were not used to water warfare and the humidity and heat in the South in summer, they mostly took advantage of the dry season of the Yangtze River in winter and when the South was relatively cold, to cross the Yangtze River to attack the South; while the South attacked the North.
On the contrary, because they were accustomed to water warfare and not accustomed to the cold winter in the north, they took advantage of the rising Yangtze River in summer and the warm weather in the north to penetrate into the north by boat from the waterway to fight. Therefore, the Sui army launched an attack in December.
After a month of hard fighting, the Chen army was defeated in the first month of the following year (589) and occupied the Xiling Gorge.
Chen Huiji, the governor of Chen Jingzhou, was stationed in the Public Security Bureau (today's northwest of Hubei Public Security Bureau). Seeing that the situation was over, he led an army of 30,000 men and more than a thousand ships and sailed eastward along the Yangtze River in an attempt to aid Jiankang. However, he and Zhou Luohu were blocked to the west of Hankou by Yang Jun's army.
In the end, the army was unable to rescue Jiankang. The Sui army Yang Su followed the main force eastward along the Yangtze River and joined Yang Jun's army in Hankou. He also sent Liu Ren'en's troops south to Xiangzhou (now Changsha, Hunan) to capture Chen Yueyang's king Chen Shushen. At this point, the middle reaches of the Yangtze River were no longer owned by Chen.
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The situation is already so critical, but there are still some treacherous officials in charge of the Chen Dynasty's court!
When the news that the Sui army successively occupied the upper reaches of the Yangtze River reached Jiankang, they were detained by Shi Wenqing and Shen Keqing, who were in charge of secrets in the imperial court, leaving Jiankang defenseless. When the Sui army advanced to the north bank of the Yangtze River, Shi Wenqing and Yuan Hui
(Spring Festival) is approaching, and they refuse to send troops to strengthen military armaments in Jingkou (now Zhenjiang, Jiangsu), quarrying (southwest of today's Ma'anshan City, Anhui), and other places.
Are these two really not spies sent by Yang Jian? No, they are not, that is, they are funny guys sent by Monkey. I really want to know what these two people are thinking, whether they want to defect to the Sui Kingdom, ugh
Alas, I don't understand it at all.
On the first day of the first lunar month in 589, the Sui army in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River crossed the Yangtze River in separate ways on the occasion of Chen Huanhui. He Ruobi's army left Guangling to cross south, and Han Qinhu's army left the Lujiang River and crossed at night from the mouth of Hengjiang River (southeast of today's He County, Anhui Province) to attack.
In Zhan Caishi (southwest of today's Ma'anshan City, Anhui Province), King Yang Guang of the Jin Dynasty left Liuhe (now part of Jiangsu) and entered Taoye Mountain (southeast of today's Liuhe).
On the fourth day of the Lunar New Year, Chen Baobao finally realized that the situation was unfavorable and issued an order to personally command Chen Jun to resist the enemy.
However, the Chen State was almost defeated at the hands of Chen Shubao. Although the generals and soldiers responded to the imperial edict and sent out troops to fight, their morale was low. The Sui army advanced unstoppably, while the Chen army was defeated repeatedly.
The Sui army sent a force to Qu'a (now Danyang, Jiangsu) to block Chen's army in the Sanwu area (now east and south of Taihu Lake in Jiangsu and Shaoxing, Zhejiang) from the north, and the main force successively occupied Gushu (now Dangtu, Anhui).
, Stone City (in Qingliang Mountain west of today's Nanjing City). At this point, the Sui army had occupied the peripheral cities of Jiankang and completely surrounded Jiankang.
In order to cooperate with the main force's operations, Sui general Wang Shiji's army also successfully captured Qikou from Qichun (today's southwest of Qichun), defeated Chen General Ji Cai, and approached Poyang Lake in Jiangxi; Yanrong's navy also moved south from the Shandong coast and occupied Sanwu.
area.
As a capital city, Jiankang (now Nanjing) must have the confidence to be a capital city. The terrain is easy to defend and difficult to attack. At that time, Jiankang still had 100,000 troops. However, Chen Shubao had no idea and left the government affairs to Shi Wenqing. Shi Wenqing was there
Chen Shubao slandered the generals in front of Chen Shubao, saying that they were dissatisfied with their high merits and small rewards, and complained from time to time, so they should not be entrusted with important tasks. Therefore, any suggestions made by the generals were blocked. Chen Shubao himself did not adopt the suggestions of the generals and gave up Zhongshan and Shitou.
Waiting for dangerous places, the main force was stationed inside and outside Jiankang City, and the Sui army surrounded Jiankang City in vain.
The Sui army attacked Jiankang, but Chen Shubao put up a wrong formation. It stretched for more than 20 miles from north to south, and could not look at each other. For various reasons, the generals either refused to fight or surrendered. The surrendered general Ren Zhong led the Sui Dynasty.
Han Qinhu went straight to the Zhuque Gate. Under Ren Zhong's persuasion, the gatekeepers, who were already unstable in military morale and had no morale, dispersed in a hurry, and Han Qinhu entered the city.
All the civil and military officials in the city fled, and the court hall was empty. Only the servant shot Yuan Xian, and the back cabinet minister Xiahou Gongyun did not leave. Chen Shubao also planned to escape, but Yuan Xian persuaded him to follow the example of Emperor Wu of Liang when he met Hou Jing, and asked him to
The Sui army surrendered with dignity, but Chen Shubao refused to listen and took his beloved concubine Zhang Lihua and Kong Guiren into a dry well to escape. Yuan Xian and Xiahou Gongyun had no choice but to surrender to the Sui army.
Chen Shubao was also found from the dry well by the Sui army, and he was taken to Han Qin's camp in embarrassment. Zhang Lihua, Shi Wenqing, Shen Keqing, Yang Huilang, Ji Huijing and others gathered in the city. Chen was destroyed, and the Five Emperors were passed down for thirty years.
Two years.
Seeing Chen Shubao reminded me of Donghun Hou Xiao Baojuan of Southern Qi. They were both dizzy, but Chen Shubao was more comfortable in the scroll than Xiao Bao. Almost all the royal family and ministers of the Chen Dynasty were taken to the Sui Kingdom. Chen Shubao
In the Sui Dynasty, he was treated with great courtesy and without the worries of state affairs, Chen Shubao indulged in wine and sex with peace of mind. In the fourth year of Renshou in the Sui Dynasty (604), Chen Shubao died of illness in Luoyang at the age of fifty-two.