Sima Chuzhi's image).
In the Northern Wei Dynasty of the Northern and Southern Dynasties, there was a very unpopular general named Sima Chuzhi.
Sima Chuzhi is not too famous in history, but his background is very prominent, he is the eighth grandson of Sima Kui, the Taichangqing of the Three Kingdoms Cao Wei.
Who is Sima Kui? He was the son of Jingzhao Yin Sima Fang of the Eastern Han Dynasty, and Sima Fang had another son named Sima Yi.
This time I understand, this Sima Chuzhi is still a descendant of the royal family of the Jin Dynasty.
Before the story is officially started, the author will give you a look at the historical background.
At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, it was divided into three kingdoms, and Wei, Shu and Wu fought in chaos, which resulted in the Sima clan digging out the old bottom, and finally unified the world by the Jin Dynasty.
The Jin Dynasty was divided into the Eastern Jin Dynasty and the Western Jin Dynasty.
The Western Jin Dynasty started the rebellion of the Eight Kings, and there were five chaotic Hua, which was basically the end of the game, fortunately, Sima Rui joined hands with the good ** Wang Dao to cross to the south and established the Eastern Jin Dynasty in the south.
But the Eastern Jin Dynasty, even a corner of the secession regime is not counted, living in the fear of the sixteen northern countries all the year round, the country is gradually declining, when the north is overturned, that is, in the last years of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, there was a ruthless Liu Yu, Liu Yu swallowed thousands of miles like a tiger, revitalized the dynasty not to mention, but also recovered a lot of the Jin Dynasty's hometown, and finally Liu Yu took the Eastern Jin Dynasty and replaced it, established the Southern Song Dynasty.
Liu Yu opened the country in the south and became the emperor, and the chaos of the sixteen northern countries gradually came to an end, and the Northern Wei regime established by the Xianbei Tuoba Department unified the north, so the following era is called the Northern and Southern Dynasties.
Portrait of Emperor Wu of the Song Dynasty Liu Yu).
Sima Chuzhi is a descendant of the royal family of the Jin Dynasty, he was an official in the Eastern Jin Dynasty when he was young, and he also has a great sense of belonging, he is straightforward and heroic by nature, he usually treats people well, and he is also very influential among the court and the opposition.
The Kingdom of Jin is not right, and it is common sense to be taken away by Liu Song, just as Liu Song will also be replaced by Xiao Qi, and there will be descendants after Xiao Qi.
This so-called: the predecessors planted trees and the later people reaped them, and the later generations were also sad when they reaped them.
However, from Sima Chuzhi's point of view, Liu Yu destroyed the Jin and usurped the throne, so the Sima clan simply had a hatred for Liu Yu.
Therefore, Liu Yu was called the emperor on the front foot, and Sima Chuzhi on the back foot was wooing outlaws among the people, wanting to do something big.
This Liu Yu has just ascended the throne, for the new emperor, he should feel the virtue of heaven and the benevolence of all the people, and it is not good to kill these old Sima people at every turn, but Sima Chuzhi recruits people every day, and in a few months, the protégés and henchmen who obey Sima Chuzhi's orders even reach tens of thousands, and Liu Yu has to deal with Sima Chuzhi whatever he says.
Therefore, Liu Yu quickly sent an assassin named Mu Qian to assassinate Sima Chuzhi unconsciously.
Coincidentally, this Mu Qian, he and Sima Chuzhi are still old acquaintances, the two have known each other for a long time, and they have always had a good relationship, so Mu Qian designed to pretend to be sick, because he knew that as a good friend, Sima Chuzhi would definitely come to visit him, and he happened to take advantage of Sima Chuzhi to come to see him, and he shot coldly and killed him.
The plan was perfect, but when Sima Chuzhi came to visit Mu Qian alone, and greeted Mu Qian with warmth and care, Mu Qian's mind changed.
This person's heart is full of flesh, others are good to you, and you still want to kill people, you can't justify it, and you can't pass the threshold of your own conscience.
So, Mu Qian simply told him frankly, saying buddy, I won't hide it from you, I was sent by Liu Yu to kill you, this Liu Yu will deal with you sooner or later, and sooner or later he will kill you, you better plan early.
Mu Qian image).
Because of this incident, Sima Chuzhi knew that the south could not stay, and it was not easy to subvert the Southern Song Dynasty with tens of thousands of people, so he simply surrendered to the Northern Wei Dynasty.
After arriving in the Northern Dynasty, Sima Chuzhi had resisted the Northern Expedition of the Southern Song Dynasty many times, which could be regarded as obstructing the unification of Emperor Liu Song to some extent.
However, his most famous war was not a battle against the Southern Dynasty, but a campaign against Rouran.
Rouran, probably from the fourth century AD to the sixth century AD in the Mongolian steppe rose a tribal khanate, they are the direct descendants of Donghu Xianbei, the Northern and Southern Dynasties, Rouran and the Southern Dynasties, the Northern Dynasties have been in opposition for a long time.
However, after all, Rouran only directly bordered the Northern Dynasty and was behind the Northern Wei Dynasty, so it didn't matter if the Southern Dynasty regime was in trouble, but the Northern Wei Dynasty would often fall into the distress of fighting on two fronts.
At that time, the Northern Wei Dynasty crusaded against Rouran, and Sima Chuzhi was the assassin of Jingzhou, because he had actively participated in the war against the Southern Dynasty and had combat experience, so in this campaign against Rouran, he was temporarily assigned to supervise the transportation of military rations for the Northern Wei army that conquered Rouran, to put it bluntly, he was temporarily the quartermaster chief.
At that time, the military rations of the Northern Wei Dynasty were stored in **, which is not recorded in the history books, but what is recorded in the history books is that when the army was about to go to war, a senior general in the Northern Wei army suddenly defected to Rouran.
I don't know what the name is, but the official rank knows, it's the general of Zhenbei.
What is the general Zhenbei, this is an important military position in ancient times, a feudal official, and a senior management, and when he ran, what he lost was not only the cultivation of the Northern Wei Empire for many years, not only the loss of talents, but also the possibility that the war secrets he mastered could be leaked.
Sure enough, as soon as the general of Zhenbei arrived in Rouran, he immediately told all the information he knew about the military deployment of the Northern Wei Dynasty, including the military grain storage point where Sima Chuzhi was stationed.
Moreover, this Zhenbei general's intentions are still very sinister, he took the initiative to suggest that the Rouran people sneak attack the military grain storage point of the Northern Wei Dynasty, this person is iron and steel, can you fight without food and grass and you have no food?
The Northern Wei Dynasty took the initiative to attack, it was an expedition, the soldiers and horses did not move the grain and grass first, you burned or snatched their grain, and you won the battle before it was fought.
In the face of General Zhenbei's proposal, the Rouran people were also skeptical, because the Rouran people would think that this might be the enemy's trick to lure the enemy, the purpose was to let Rouran send troops to attack the place where the Northern Wei army's grain was stored, and then the Northern Wei Dynasty would set up an ambush around the perimeter in advance to give the Rouran army a pot.
To be on the safe side, the Rouran people did not immediately dispatch the whole army, but successively sent more than a dozen spies to the place where Sima Chuzhi was stationed to find out the truth.
These spies, who can be said to be extremely skilled, came and went without a trace, secretly infiltrated Sima Chuzhi's army, verified the information provided by General Zhenbei, and then calmly retreated without leaving a trace.
After the spies left, Sima Chuzhi's subordinates sent a very strange report to Sima Chuzhi the next day.
The people below reported that something strange had happened in the barracks in the past two days, and that several donkeys we used to transport food had their ears cut off and taken away.
Grain and grass stronghold) is actually very confusing.
Because, if the enemy comes to steal, either the donkey or the grain, why do you have to cut off the donkey's ears and take it away?
Therefore, if you are not a delicate person, you will not find the clue at all.
However, Sima Chuzhi was quick to capture the disturbing elements.
In this world, if something happens, there will inevitably be a reason for its occurrence, how can a good donkey's ears disappear?
Sima Chuzhi pondered and pondered, and finally made him imagine a terrifying and unsettling truth, that is, his army had already been infiltrated by Rouran's spies, and although the purpose of these spies here was not clear, the purpose of cutting off the donkey's ears must be to obtain a certificate in their own army, so as to prove that they had indeed entered the army of the Northern Wei Dynasty when they went back to restore their lives, and they had indeed heard the true news.
The idea was very bold, but it really made Sima Chuzhi guess it.
Because, the Rouran Khan is cunning by nature, the Zhenbei general of the Northern Wei Dynasty provided him with the hiding place of the Northern Wei military grain, and let him lead the army to attack, he is afraid of fraud, so he will send spies to find out the truth, but the problem is that the Great Khan is also worried that these spies are running trains in their mouths, in case some spies feel dangerous, they don't go to talk, they insist on going, and when they come back, they provide false news, and they can't tell the difference, what should they do?
Therefore, before each of the spies set out, the Great Khan of Rouran asked them separately to cut off the ears of the donkeys in the Northern Wei army when they returned to return to their lives, as a proof that he had indeed completed the task of infiltrating the enemy and obtained accurate information.
Seeing these cut off donkey ears, the Rouran people finally couldn't hold back the joy in their hearts anymore, and immediately marched with their divisions, attacking the stronghold guarded by Sima Chu at full speed.
Rouran samurai figurines).
The wind and sand in the north are bitter and cold, and the people of Rouran have had enough of eating sand every day, and now as long as they take the grain and grass of the Northern Wei Dynasty and cut off the military supplies of the Northern Wei Dynasty, this battle will be won without fighting.
Moreover, the Northern Wei army was alone for hundreds of miles, unable to eat or drink, and even if the army withdrew, it was slow to move.
However, when the Rouran people arrived at the grain and grass stronghold of the Northern Wei Dynasty, they found that Sima Chuzhi had already built an impassable fence under the city.
This fence, to be honest, Nu Dian can climb over, but the problem is that Rouran are all cavalry, and they are also heavy heavy armored cavalry, in ancient times, this is a high-speed mobile force, people, horses, armor, ** these four sets combined, that is extremely strong combat effectiveness.
But now Sima Chuzhi has built a fence around the city, and if the Rouran people want to attack, they must first abandon the horse, because the horse can't jump over the fence, and the abandonment of the horse is not counted, and the Rouran people have to remove all the heavy armor and heavy ** on their bodies, because you are wearing this kind of equipment too heavy, too stupid, and you can't climb the fence.
However, even if the Rouran people abandoned their horses and equipment and attacked the city lightly, they couldn't climb over this fence, because, in the cold weather of January, Sima Chuzhi asked the soldiers to water the fence overnight, and when the Rouran people came, all the fences were covered with a thick layer of ice, not to mention more strong and slippery, the Rouran people climbed violently, and the result was slippery, and the knot fell several horses. Rouran people really had no choice but to leave with a scolding.
The sun sets over the long river and the west wind is fierce, this small stronghold, Sima Chuzhi's hundreds of troops, really let him defend it.
At the age of seventy-five, Sima Chuzhi went through battles and finally died of illness in the Northern Wei Dynasty.
In the process of the rise and fall of dynasties, especially in troubled times such as the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the fate of individuals is often insignificant, just as in the grand historical narrative, the existence of dynasties is only the number of sands in the Ganges.
Sima Chuzhi never crossed the Yangtze River south to return to his homeland, nor did he recover the glory of the Sima clan, but this clever and ingenious battle has always been cited as a quick talk by later generations.