Chapter 69 Embattled

In February 402 AD, as expected by the Later Qin Emperor Yao Xing, after the Later Qin army withdrew from Guzang, the Northwest Zhuliang Kingdom fought fiercely around Guzang. The lord of the Northern Liang Kingdom, Fuqu Mengxun, took the opportunity of the grain shortage in Guzang to lead the army to attack Houliang, which only kept one city. Lu Long, the lord of Houliang, poured all the soldiers of the city to meet the battle, and sent an envoy to the bald and lili Lugu, the lord of Nanliang, for help.

Bald Lu Gu was sick at this time, so he sent his brother Bald Wei Tan to lead 10,000 cavalry to the rescue, and face to face to teach the opportunity, let the bald Wei Tan take the opportunity to capture Guzang, the bald Wei Tan naturally knew that Gu Zang was an important town in the northwest, so he rushed to the rescue, but the bald Wei Tan did not arrive, Lu Long won a small victory over the frustrated Qu Mengxun, the frustrated Qu Meng Xun heard that the bald Wei Tan led the army to come to the rescue, I was afraid that he would fight with Lu Long, and was reaped by Nan Liang, so he sent someone to make peace with Lu Long, Lu Long was also afraid that the bald Wei Tan would be destroyed by the false way, so he formed an alliance with the frustrated Qu Meng Xun, Frustrated Qu Mengxun even expected that the bald Wei Tan would not return easily when he came to help Gu Zang, and he planned in his heart that he could let Lu Long fight the bald Wei Tan again, so that when he could withdraw from the army, he left more than 10,000 grains to help Lu Long survive the food shortage, so that he could resist the bald Wei Tan.

The bald Wei Tan saw that the frustrated Qu Mengxun retired from the army, and funded Lu Long's food, knowing that the frustrated Qu Meng Xun was not at ease, and it happened that the news that his brother was critically ill came from Nanliang, and the bald Wei Tan also withdrew and returned to Ledu. Soon, the lord of Nanliang died of illness, and the bald Wei Tan succeeded to the throne.

In October of the same year, the bald Wei Tan, the lord of the Southern Liang who had just succeeded to the throne, heard that Li Wei, the lord of the Western Liang, sent troops to attack the counties of Beiliang, and knew that the frustrated Qu Mengxun had no time to take care of the affairs of the Later Liang, so he personally led the troops to attack Guzang again, wanting to take this important town in the northwest in one fell swoop.

In 403 AD, Lu Long, the lord of Houliang, held Guzang for several months. One day, Lu Long climbed the city tower, saw that Guzang City was full of devastation, the people withered, the soldiers were tired, not only painful, silently weeping, for the country frequently suffered from the South Liang and the North Liang in turn attack, he could only be tired of coping, in order to protect the army and people in the city from the suffering of war, Lu Long immediately ordered to send Lu Chao to lead 200 cavalry, carrying the treasures in the palace, to Chang'an, and asked the Later Qin Emperor Yao Xing to send troops to take over Guzang, and promised to surrender the whole country.

Lu Chao received the order, did not dare to delay, and hurried to Chang'an.

Yao Xing learned that Lu Long had the intention of surrendering to the land, so he sent his general Qi Nan and others to lead 40,000 cavalry to Guzang. At this time, the bald Wei Tan learned that the Hou Qin army was coming, and he was weak, so he led his troops to retreat.

Qi Nan led the army to Guzang, and Lu Long took a car to meet him outside the city. And sent the clan to say goodbye to Lu Guangzong Temple, saying: "The first emperor strategized, opened up the territory, took charge of Liangzhou, served the common people with virtue, and shocked the Quartet. The heirs are sideways, without virtue and talent, usurping and killing each other. The two captives are forced one after another, and the unfilial descendants will return to Guanzhong, and I would like to say goodbye to the emperor here. ”

Lu Long and his ministers wept bitterly, and the Later Qin soldiers were also moved. Qi Nan left the soldiers to defend the city, led Lu Long and his clan ministers more than 10,000 households to return to Chang'an, since then Liang perished, from Lü Guang to Lü Long's surrender, enjoying the country for 17 years. After the fall of Hou Liang, Hou Qin occupied Guzang, and the northwest of the power was shocked, and the bald Wei Tan, the lord of Southern Liang, could only look at the city and sigh, and removed the honorable position, and called Hou Qin. The lord of the Northern Liang Kingdom, Fuqu Mengxun, because the lord of the Western Liang Kingdom, Li Wei, constantly sent troops to harass his realm, and had no intention of looking eastward, so he was also called the minister Hou Qin.

At this time, the Later Qin Emperor Yao Xing believed that the northwest was pacified, and when he heard of the civil strife in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, he took the opportunity to expand to the south.

At this time, the Eastern Jin Dynasty, after the Battle of Huangshui, the emperor's power gradually declined, when the Xie clan and the Huan clan who led the troops to protect half of the Eastern Jin Dynasty held the military power, after the death of Xie An, the patriarch of the Xie clan, the Huan clan began to make it bigger, and served as the military town of Jingzhou for generations. and changed the name of the country to Chu.

Huan Xuan coup, the Eastern Jin Dynasty guards have raised troops to rebel, so that the south of the Yangtze River chaos, the Later Qin Emperor Yao Xing naturally will not stand idly by, just when the Houliang lord Lu Long surrendered, he personally led the army south, Lianke Eastern Jin Dynasty twelve counties, and took the sheep to break the Qiu Chi, Qiu Chi King Yang Sheng had to send his son as a hostage, and surrendered to the title of minister, at this time the Hou Qin national strength has not lost to the Northern Wei Dynasty that occupies the eastern part of the country.

Later Qin Emperor Yao Xing, who was in Guanzhong, saw that the national strength was prosperous, so he began to slack off on the government. Yao Xing had invited the Western Regions monk Kumaroshi in Houliang, and respected it, and was more pious to Buddhism, under the promotion of the Later Qin Emperor Yao Xing, the whole country of the Later Qin Dynasty believed in Buddhism, for a time the whole country was full of monasteries and pagodas rose from the ground, and the monks were exempted from servitude, and the people around the country reached the point that nine out of every ten households had someone become monks.

Yao Xing and Buddha even abandoned the national government, and invested a large amount of treasury income into Buddhist affairs, which made the treasury empty, and a large number of people in the country became monks, and no one in the Later Qin State joined the army and no one cultivated, so that the national strength of the Later Qin was seriously delayed.

However, the Northern Wei Dynasty, which occupied the Kwantung region, gradually dominated Guanzhong in Yaoxing, and when it was shaking the northwest, it was also under the rule of Emperor Tuoba Jue to develop production, increase population, accumulate grain and grass, and wait for opportunities to weaken and consume Later Qin.

If you want to know how the eloquent Northern Wei Emperor Tuoba Jue dealt with the gradually powerful Later Qin, please see the next chapter.