Chapter 10 The Battle of Feishui(20)
The following paragraphs will briefly summarize the reasons for failure of former Qin at Feishui battle.
First, the Battle of Feishui was fought in the six or seven years after Fu Jian unified the north. At that time, former Qin was only militarily unified, with unstable internal rule and no solid material foundation. Moreover, Fu Jian's successive campaigns made the people tired of war, the morale of the army was low, and the mass foundation was lacking. Just as Engels said, "Successive wars would exhaust even the most powerful state". Before the Southern Expedition, Prince Fu Hong had told Fu Jian that it was necessary for the Eastern Jin to conquer Fu Jian, but the main task at present was to "prepare troops for the Lord in south to blow up himself". Fu Jian should have accepted this idea and continued to restore and develop the economy in the North, so that Fu Jian could build a solid foundation for the unification of the military and administrative union, and then unify the whole country. Increasingly proud of his sudden victory, however, Fu Jian, regardless of the subjective and objective conditions, rushed to launch the war of aggression against Jin, enrolling millions of soldiers, which brought a heavy burden to the people of all ethnic groups in the North. As a result, Fu Jian was unpopular and had low combat effectiveness, so that his front army would immediately scatter and flee as soon as they encountered Eastern Jin army vanguard, without real sense fighting at Feishui. Only one failure ruined many years hard work. [29]
First, the Battle of Feishui was fought in the six or seven years after Fu Jian unified the north. At that time, former Qin was only militarily unified, with unstable internal rule and no solid material foundation. Moreover, Fu Jian's successive campaigns made the people tired of war, the morale of the army was low, and the mass foundation was lacking. Just as Engels said, "Successive wars would exhaust even the most powerful state". Before the Southern Expedition, Prince Fu Hong had told Fu Jian that it was necessary for the Eastern Jin to conquer Fu Jian, but the main task at present was to "prepare troops for the Lord in south to blow up himself". Fu Jian should have accepted this idea and continued to restore and develop the economy in the North, so that Fu Jian could build a solid foundation for the unification of the military and administrative union, and then unify the whole country. Increasingly proud of his sudden victory, however, Fu Jian, regardless of the subjective and objective conditions, rushed to launch the war of aggression against Jin, enrolling millions of soldiers, which brought a heavy burden to the people of all ethnic groups in the North. As a result, Fu Jian was unpopular and had low combat effectiveness, so that his front army would immediately scatter and flee as soon as they encountered Eastern Jin army vanguard, without real sense fighting at Feishui. Only one failure ruined many years hard work. [29]
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