About Chapter 70 Synopsis: The Northern Wei Emperor Tuoba Gui saw the Later Qin regime growing stronger. He deeply knew that the Later Qin regime would be its strongest opponent in the Central Plains. Tuoba sent small forces to constantly harass and encroach on the territory of Later Qin. Caused the Later Qin Emperor Yao Xing to be furious, and regardless of the opposition of the ministers, personally led the army to the east to conquer the Northern Wei Dynasty, Tuoba Jue did not give in, sent a large army to block, the two armies fought in Chaibi, Yao Xing was defeated, retreated to Guanzhong, Tuoba Gui wanted to take advantage of the victory to attack Guanzhong, but heard that Rouran wanted to invade south, had to lead the troops back.

In this story, after the Northern Wei Dynasty occupied the Kwantung region, it did not rush to settle the Later Yan Empire and the Southern Yan regime established by the Xianbei Murong Tribe. Instead, he chose to point the finger directly at the Later Qin Empire, which occupied the Guanzhong region and threatened the northwest. It can be seen that Tuoba Gui has great ambitions, and he knows that once the Later Qin Empire rises, it will inevitably be a difficult character to deal with. Later, the Yan Empire has become the end of the strong crossbow, and the Southern Yan regime is even more projectile. There is no threat to his own ambitions, so the Later Qin Empire is the henchman of the Northern Wei Dynasty to dominate the world. Tuoba Jue naturally wanted to take the opportunity to suppress the Later Qin Empire. Therefore, Tuoba Gui put the main target of his attack on the Later Qin Empire.

At this time, the Later Qin Empire was in the prosperous stage of occupying Longxi and the northwest of Weizhen, and the Later Qin Emperor Yao Xing naturally had certain ideas about expanding to the east and occupying the Kwantung region, but there were not too many contradictions between the Later Qin Empire and the Northern Wei Dynasty. But what Yao Xing didn't expect was that in the first battle of Chaibi, the Later Qin army lost its armor, and the Northern Wei Dynasty completely curbed the eastward expansion of the Later Qin Empire. Although after the Battle of Chaibi, the Later Qin Empire completed control of the important town of Guzang in Liangzhou and occupied the twelve counties of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, it was never able to take another step towards the Kwantung region. After this war, the Northern Wei Dynasty also began to pay attention to the relationship between Rouran and the Mongolian steppe in the north. Therefore, after the Battle of Chaibi, the Later Qin Empire and the Northern Wei Dynasty temporarily reached a situation of peaceful coexistence. However, the Later Qin Empire became more and more acute with the expansion of its power due to its internal contradictions, and after the Battle of Chaibi, the Northern Wei Dynasty's rule over the Kwantung region became more and more stable, which allowed the rulers of the Northern Wei Dynasty to rest assured and boldly solve the problem of the invasion of the northern Rouran first.

In fact, the Battle of Chaibi is in a sense very similar to the Battle of Weishui of the former Qin Empire, which is a battle that has a profound impact on the political pattern of the nomads entering the northern region, but the scale and impact of this war are far less grand and far-reaching than the Battle of Weishui, because the Battle of Chaibi is only a war between the northern nomads, and it did not have much impact on the Eastern Jin Dynasty in the Jiangnan region at that time, so people in later generations often did not pay attention to this war. But I think the war is of great significance to the strategic situation at the end of the Sixteen Kingdoms period.

The victorious Northern Wei Dynasty thus steadily controlled the Kanto region with a richer economy and a deeper cultural heritage, which played a very important role in accelerating the sinicization of its main tribes, although the defeated Later Qin Empire suffered little loss in the Battle of Chaibi, but the Battle of Chaibi made the Later Qin Empire see the strength of the Northern Wei Dynasty, for the eastward expansion, the strategic goal of occupying the Guandong region can only be a few bays across the Yellow River to show helplessness and sighing, and the Later Qin Empire after the war had to change its strategic goals. The war-torn Liangzhou region and the Eastern Jin Dynasty, which was full of civil strife, were the objects of their expansion, and certain results were achieved.

But we must know that the Later Qin Empire could not unify the Central Plains, and its overall national strength was difficult to effectively manage the Liangzhou region, and the Liangzhou town Guzang occupied by the Later Qin Empire was more like the tentacles of the Later Qin Empire reaching out to the Liangzhou region or the salient part of the Later Qin Empire's power, and it was very likely to be surrounded by neighboring forces, not to mention that the Liangzhou region at that time still had three moments to dominate the Liangguo in the northwest. The Eastern Jin Dynasty, which was forcibly occupied by the Later Qin Empire in twelve counties, was still the orthodox dynasty of the Han ancestors at that time, and the overall strength was also relatively strong after the Battle of Weishui, and its civil strife finally subsided one day, once a strong figure became the helmsman of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, the land of the twelve counties seized by the Later Qin Empire became a hot potato, and the Eastern Jin Dynasty was also likely to use this as an excuse to ask the Later Qin Empire for its rejuvenation.

What's more, the result of the Battle of Chaibi made the Later Qin Empire see that its main tribe was no longer able to fight against the Xianbei Tuoba tribe that had just entered the Kanto region, so if the Later Qin Empire wanted to curb the westward advance of the Xianbei Tuoba Tribe, it was inevitable to seek the help of other nomads who were not deeply sinicized. But how can these nomads who are not deeply sinicized be willing to act as a shield for the nomadic dynasty that has basically completed sinicization? After they entered the Central Plains, they were bound to embark on the road of sinicization of their tribes through feudal statehood, so Liu Bobo, the leader of the Xiongnu Tiefu Department who was entrusted with important tasks by Yao Xing, continued to recruit his subordinates, expand his power, and took the opportunity to rebel and establish the Huxia regime in the Sixteen Kingdoms, the rebellion of the Xiongnu Tiefu Department will inevitably cause a chain reaction of contradictions within the Later Qin Empire, so the establishment of the Huxia regime will also sound the death knell of the Later Qin Empire.

It can be seen that although the Battle of Chaibi was only a small battle in the northern nomadic regime at the end of the Sixteen Kingdoms period, it laid the foundation for the unification of the Northern Wei Dynasty established by the Xianbei Tuoba Tribe, and also laid the groundwork for the early end of the troubled times of the Sixteen Kingdoms. Speaking of which, this inconspicuous Battle of Chaibi seems to be very similar to the Battle of Yiting between the Eastern Wu regime and the Shu Han regime at the end of the Three Kingdoms period, except that one occurred in the northern region and the other in the southern region, so I will take this opportunity to talk about some things about the Battle of Yiting.

The Battle of Yiting is also known as the Battle of Yiling, of course, because of the wide spread of the literary masterpiece "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", this battle also has a name that is very familiar to people now, that is, Lu Xun burned the company camp. It is said that in the middle and late stages of the Three Kingdoms period, the Shu Han regime in order to recapture the Jingzhou area recovered by the Eastern Wu regime and expand the advantages of the Shu Han regime in the Three Kingdoms, Liu Bei, the first lord of the Shu Han Dynasty, personally led an army of 50,000 to the east to attack Wu, but was defeated by Lu Xun, the governor of the Eastern Wu Dynasty, in Yiting, and Liu Bei died of illness after fleeing to the White Emperor City.

Of course, the historical story we are familiar with is not the case, the plot described in the famous book "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" is more ups and downs, exciting, it is said that the governor of Eastern Wu, Lu Meng, crossed the river in white clothes to seize Jingzhou and captured Guan Yu, Liu Bei, the ancestor of Shu Han, sent more than 700,000 troops to attack Wu in order to avenge Guan Yu's revenge, but was defeated by Lu Xun burning the company's camp, Liu Bei was angry and sick and retreated to the White Emperor City to support Gu, Zhuge Liang first captured Meng seven times after taking power, and then six out of Qishan to attack Wei, and finally died of illness in Wuzhangyuan.

In fact, the situation mentioned in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" is basically the same as the historical context of the Three Kingdoms period, but a lot of plots and details have been added in the middle, among which the launch of the Battle of Yiting is by no means as simple as Liu Bei's revenge for his second brother Guan Yu, when Guan Yu was killed, the Battle of Yiting was two years ago, if Liu Bei was just for brotherly feelings and Liu Bei's army was definitely not more than 700,000 people, this is just a writer's rendering and exaggeration of the work, and the same seven captures of Meng Shu and six out of Qishan are also the polish of the official history by writers. The conquest of the southern and central regions will never have such a wonderful scene as the seven captures and seven columns, Zhuge Liang's six northern expeditions are also nonsense, and the Northern Expedition of Cao Wei led by Zhuge Liang in the official history is only five times, so we can know that the battle of Yiting that we are familiar with is not a large-scale battle, and its scale is almost the same as the battle of Chaibi.

The cause of the Battle of Qianting was also caused by the continuous encroachment of the Eastern Wu regime on the territory of the Shu Han regime, which was the same as the strategy adopted by the Northern Wei Dynasty to curb the expansion of the Later Qin Empire before the Battle of Chaibi. And after the end of the war, the losing side chose other strategic directions, and although they all achieved certain results, they were all eliminated by the orthodox dynasty they attacked after changing the more capable rulers. In general, the Battle of Chaibi between the Later Qin Empire and the Northern Wei Dynasty has many similarities in significance and influence with the Battle of Qiting between the Shu Han regime and the Eastern Wu regime during the Three Kingdoms period, and it can be regarded as an extremely important battle during the Sixteen Kingdoms period.

During the period of the Sixteen Kingdoms, wars were frequent, and only the battle of the former Qin Empire and the Eastern Jin Dynasty was familiar to our people now, in fact, although the scale of this battle was large, but the process of the war was relatively simple, and although the scale of the battle of Chai Bi was not grand, the process of the war was also relatively complicated, and the military strategy of encircling the point to send reinforcements was used by our modern red military family to be superb, and this war really should not be forgotten by people.