Chapter 10 The Battle of Feishui(2)

The battle was one of the few famous battles in ancient Chinese history in which fewer won more. The forces of the two sides in front of the station were extremely unequal. It was the former Qin army led by Fu Jian that took the initiative to attack, totaling 800,000 troops, including 300,000 under the direct line of former Qin and 500,000 subordinate troops of the northern minority local governments newly submitted to the army. The total strength of the defense was 80,000 Beifu troops of the Eastern Jin Dynasty. As a result of the war, almost the entire army under the direct line led by Fu Jian of the former Qin Dynasty was wiped out, while all the subordinate troops defected. As a result, the powerful Former Qin State was destroyed, while the Eastern Jin State was consolidated and preserved. The following is a review of the antecedents and processes of the campaign.

As mentioned above, the Western Jin Dynasty founded by Sima Yan was politically corrupt. The rule of Taikang, like the dew in the morning, came to an abrupt end in less than ten years. The dynasty's fortunes took a turn for the worse and eventually vanished into thin air. However, after Sima Rui, king of Langya, had occupied most of the areas south of the Han and Huai Rivers. [3]In the 317 years of Healthy Park City, which is now the city of Nanjing, King Sima Rui declared himself emperor and founded the Eastern Jin Dynasty. The Eastern Jin Dynasty was more dependent on large families to rule, and was more distant from the common people, which made the ruling base weaker. Social conflicts became more acute. There was a lot of conflict between the large families that had migrated from the north and the local families, and there was constant fighting. As a result, after the establishment of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, the society was very unstable and the political and military power was very weak. It also provided an opportunity for some of the regimes established by the northern minorities.