Chapter 57: Daya Rotary

In 391 A.D., the Later Yan Emperor Murong Chui learned that Tuoba Jue refused to pay tribute to famous horses, and he had realized that Tuoba Jue had galloped through the grassland and unified all the tribes with his help in recent years.

However, Murong Chui deeply knew that it was not easy to crusade against the Northern Wei Dynasty at this time, although he personally led his army to the south shortly after he became emperor, he recovered Qingzhou, Yanzhou, Xuzhou and other prefectures and counties occupied by the Eastern Jin Dynasty after the Battle of Weishui, and Guandong Qicheng was under his control, but he still had two strong enemies to accompany him.

After Zhai Liao stole Liyang, there were only a few cities, three and four days, left and right, sometimes took refuge in Houyan to attack the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and sometimes attached to the West Yan to harass Houyan, so that Murong Chui scratched his head, Zhai Liao wanted to take refuge in Murong Chui, but Murong Chui saw that it was capricious, and resolutely refused to take it in, Zhai Liao called himself the King of Great Wei, known as Zhai Wei (not among the Sixteen Kingdoms).

Murong Yong of Xiyan is a distant branch of the former Yan clan, but he founded the country and called the emperor, always plotting to destroy the big sect with a small sect, and Murong Chui was also afraid of reappearing the matter of Quwo Dynasty Jin.

At the end of 391 A.D., the Later Yan Emperor Murong Chui, who had been thinking about the Northern Expedition to the Northern Wei Dynasty, heard that Zhai Liao died of illness and his son Zhai Zhao succeeded to the throne. Zhai is weak and capricious, and should be extinguished first.

In February 396 AD, Murong Chui personally led a large army to conquer Zhai Zhao, Zhai Zhao knew that his strength was weak, so he asked Murong Yong of Xiyan for help, but Murong Yong wanted to take advantage of the fisherman, so he agreed on the surface, but in fact did not send a single soldier, Zhai Zhao was unable to support alone, and was defeated all the way, so he had to defend Liyang and block the Houyan army with the danger of the Yellow River.

In June of the same year, Murong Chui saw that Zhai Zhao could not defend it, so he divided his troops into two routes, and led his army to retreat to the upper reaches of the Yellow River first, and then went east along the Yellow River to attack Liyang. Zhai Zhao heard this, hurriedly led the army along the Yellow River west to meet the battle, at this time, Murong Chui ordered the army to lead Murong Zhen from the Liyang ferry to cross the river overnight, occupy Liyang, the two armies attacked Zhai Zhao, Zhai Zhao led the army to flee in defeat, Murong Chui took advantage of the victory to pursue, Zhai Zhao had to lead the remnants of the defeated army to flee to Xiyan, Xiyan Emperor Murong Yong saw that Zhai Zhao's soldiers were outnumbered, and it was useless, so he killed him and annexed his department.

In 393 AD, Murong Chui destroyed Zhai Wei, so he wanted to take advantage of the victory to defeat Xiyan. He convened the ministers to discuss, and then the Yan ministers were worried, and many ministers played a game, expressing their opposition on the grounds that the country had been fighting for several years, and the people were tired and should rest and recuperate. At this time, his brother Murong De played: "The emperor's brother returned to the country, in fact, the people of his homeland remembered the shadow of the first emperor, and now Murong Yong is a distant relative of the royal family, but he has arrogated the emperor, established a false name, and incited the people to revolt. ”

Murong Chui laughed: "What the emperor's brother said is very true, and I am close to antiquity, with the rest of the plot and my brother working together, it will definitely be destroyed, and this traitor cannot be left to future generations!" ”

Murong Chui immediately ordered the requisition of troops and horses to prepare for the crusade against Xiyan.

When Emperor Murong Yong of Western Yan learned that Houyan was going to send troops to fight with him, he was naturally not to be outdone, and immediately mobilized a large army to guard Taibi (now Taipei Village, Licheng), ready to intercept the Houyan army

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At the end of 393 AD, the Later Yan Emperor Murong Chui issued an edict to recruit troops and horses to assemble in the southwestern suburbs of Yecheng, but he did not order the march for more than a month.

At this time, the Western Yan Emperor Murong Yong didn't know what Murong Trai was about, and began to be suspicious, and even suspected that Murong Trai might use the plank road to repair the plank road in the Ming Dynasty and secretly plan to cross the Taihang Mountain and break into it, so he ordered the Taihang Mountain defenders to block the Taihang Mountain Pass.

In February 394 AD, Murong Chui learned that the Western Yan Emperor Murong Yong had divided his troops to garrison various passes, so he personally led a large army into the Taibi, which was empty and dangerous. Murong Yong, the emperor of Western Yan, had no choice but to requisition 50,000 defenders of Taihang Mountain to return to the defense, and personally led the defenders of the eldest son of the capital to Taibi for reinforcements.

Murong Trai saw that Murong Yongqin led the Western Yan reinforcements had arrived, so he lined up in the south of the Taibi, but secretly ambushed the soldiers in the Zhanghe Stream, the two armies fought, Murong Trai pretended to be defeated and retreated, the Western Yan Emperor Murong Yong did not know that there was a deception, and led the army to chase after him, and as a result, Murong Trai was introduced into the Zhanghe River Stream ambush circle, a big battle, the Western Yan Emperor Murong Yong was defeated, and had to lead the remnants of the army to retreat to the eldest son, and more than 50,000 people who returned from Taihang Mountain were already exhausted, complaining, and had no fighting spirit, and saw that they were ambushed, and simply surrendered.

In the battle of Taibi, the main force of Western Yan was lost, and the defenders of Jinyang (now Taiyuan, Shanxi) fled in despair, Murong Chui led the Houyan army to the city of the eldest son without much effort, and Murong Yong, the emperor of Western Yan, had to send envoys to the Eastern Jin Dynasty and the Northern Wei Dynasty for help. However, the reinforcements from both sides had not yet arrived, and the eldest son of the capital of Xiyan, the guard, saw that his general situation had gone, and opened the city gate to welcome Murong Chui into the city.

After Murong Chui entered the city, he beheaded the Western Yan Emperor Murong Yong and his civil and military ministers, and the Western Yan perished.

At this point, Houyan basically restored the land of Qianyan, and it was all about the east.

In the same year that Xiyan fell, Qin also died before pacifying the north, if you know how the former Qin perished, and what kind of war was in the land of Guanzhong, please see the next chapter.