Chapter 6 The First World War Determines the Western Wei Dynasty
Outside the gate of Chang'an City, people dressed plainly come and go, hang a small wooden cage high on the city wall on the left side of Chang'an City, only to see the small wooden cage dripping blood from time to time, take a closer look, it turned out to be the head of the Eastern Wei Dynasty general Dou Tai, under the city of Chang'an, the people who passed walked and walked, unnaturally gathered into the crowd of onlookers. Suddenly, I only heard someone in the crowd say loudly: "The world has been in turmoil for hundreds of years, and now there is Prime Minister Yuwen, I don't have to be afraid anymore, I don't have to be displaced anymore, and I don't have to live a begging life!" Some of the onlookers were afraid to cover their eyes and dare not watch, and some whispered to each other.
At this moment, Yuwentai is riding a war horse alone and standing not far away, quietly watching the crowd of onlookers, in the beginning of summer, there is a breeze blowing lightly, and the cloak behind him flies from time to time, there are only two people behind him, the metropolitan governor Li Bi and the guard Cai You, Li Bi metropolitan governor himself led the crowd to abandon Hou Mo Chen Yue, who was quite trusted after surrendering to Yuwentai, because of the general's slight ability to soldier, and gradually became the person who Yuwentai must not leave, only to see that at this time Li Bi Dadu unconsciously drove his horse forward, came to Yuwentai's side and said: "Lord, the minister is deeply confused, Why don't you capture Dou Tai? Submission for the use of my Western Wei? Besides, is this inappropriate? ”
Yuwentai glanced back at Li Bi, then looked at the people gathered at the city gate and said: "What's wrong, use heavy codes in troubled times, first of all, he is Gao Huan's henchman of the Eastern Wei Dynasty, and he will never surrender, and secondly, I want to borrow Dou Tai's head!" ”
Li Bi was even more puzzled: "The minister is stupid, I don't know what the use of Dou Tai's head is?" Please make it clear! ”
Yu Wentai continued: "First: to stabilize the people's hearts, the world has endured chaos for several years, the people have been displaced and suffered, this move can make the people know that our Western Wei army is capable of defending the country, so that the people can work with peace of mind; Second: used to deter the opposition forces within the imperial court, I am the public enemy of the Western Wei clan, the clan magnates regard me as a thief who steals the country, and they are not used to seeing me in power, they have the banner of orthodoxy and have the foundation of popularity, so they must do this, so as to make them frightened, do not dare to act easily, the court situation is stable, and we can concentrate on dealing with external troubles; Third: Let the Eastern Wei Dynasty Gao Huan be frightened, although I have few soldiers and generals, it is not that it can be exterminated if it wants to, and it can play a deterrent role strategically. Three reasons prompted me to do this, I have been fighting for many years, in order to calm the troubled times, and return the world to peace, although it is ruthless at this moment, but forced by the situation, I have to do it! At this time, Yuwentai's mount was walking unconsciously, and then he grabbed the reins of the horse and said: "Dou Tai, the general of the Eastern Wei Dynasty, will die, the metropolitan governor, can you understand?" ”
Li Bi's eyes lit up at this time and he said to his commander: "The lord is far-sighted, and the ministers are on the ground!" ”
Yu Wentai looked at the bustling people at the gate of Chang'an City at this time, his expression became more determined, and he returned to his senses and said to Li Bi Dadu: "Dadu Dudu, I will rush to Guangyang at night immediately to prevent the Eastern Wei Dynasty from crossing the river!" ”
Li Bi bowed on his horse and said, "Lord Nuo! ”
The army immediately galloped towards the Chinese army in Guangyang. It was late at night when he arrived in Guangyang, and there was no moment of rest, so he took advantage of the darkness of the night to lead the main army to the bank of the Yellow River, looking at the Eastern Wei army on the opposite bank at this time, the lights were bright, the camp was neat, and he was ready to fight.
Yu Wentai said to the generals: "Gao Huan is really a handsome talent that has not been met in a century, but looking at the arrangement of the camp, you can know that he has led the troops well and met an opponent!" ”
At this time, Yang Zhong, the general behind him, said to Yuwentai: "Lord, do you want to make a surprise attack?" At present, although the Eastern Wei army has built a pontoon bridge, you see that there are no soldiers at the bridgehead to probe the outpost, and they dare not cross the river easily, and the sneak attack battle is what the ministers are good at, which will definitely make the Eastern Wei army tremble and be in chaos, so that they dare not be greedy again! As he spoke, he pointed to the pontoon bridge over the Yellow River.
Yu Wentai seemed to be moved at this time.
Governor Li Bi took over the words of General Yang Zhong and said: "The lord can wait on the shore, I will wait for the Eastern Army to be unprepared!" ”
Yu Wentai muttered for a moment on the war horse and said: "Okay, Gao Huan is resourceful, remember not to enter the enemy formation too deeply, and accept it when you see it!" ”
At this time, Yang Zhong and Li Bi each led 3,000 infantry to cross the river.
Gao Huan in the big tent of the Chinese army on the other side of the Yellow River learned that Dou Tai's 10,000 iron cavalry had been annihilated at this time, and his hand unconsciously pressed the war knife in his waist, walked around angrily, and shouted loudly with a hammer head and blunt feet: "Dou Tai, stupid horseman, caused our army to fall short, 10,000 heavy cavalry were all annihilated, our army's elite heavy cavalry, operating for many years, good equipment can be used, from the beginning of the battle with Er Zhu Zhao, never defeated, I didn't expect to be so vulnerable in front of the Western Wei army, hate me to death!" Hate me to death! ”
Peng Le and Hu Lu Jin Du looked at Gao Huan and went crazy.
At this time, the strategist Xue Xuan looked at the angry Gao Huan and saluted, and said: "Prime Minister is angry, let's hurry up and burn the pontoon bridge, victory or defeat is a common thing in soldiers, if the Western Army returns to defend Guangyang and takes the opportunity to kill, then it will be difficult for our army to get out!" ”
Gao Huan immediately calmed down and said sadly: "Hate me to death!" The army marched westward and broke one of my generals, which is really a great shame! ”
Then called Xue Guyan, the guard outside the big tent.
I saw Xue Guyan come in and salute, and said, "Lord! What do you command? ”
Gao Huan said anxiously: "Hurry up, you can order the high Xingtai in Luoshui to withdraw the army quickly, he has already entered the enemy too deeply, and he will be surrounded and annihilated if he is not careful, and the loss will be greater, I didn't expect that Yuwentai, who had just pacified Guanlong, had few soldiers and few generals, and he had such combat power!" ”
The guard Xue Guyan held his hand and saluted: "No! Lord! ”
Xue Guyan hurriedly went out of the account and explained to the deputy general, turned around and walked into the big tent, and waited on Gao Huan's right side.
At this time, the general Peng Le bowed his hand and said: "Prime Minister, is the pontoon bridge burning now?" Our strength is far greater than that of the Western Wei Army, why not fight to survive the pontoon bridge in one go, and also avenge General Dou! ”
Gao Huan suddenly stopped in the center of the military tent, and said helplessly: "The fighter plane has been lost, if you cross the pontoon bridge now, kill a thousand enemies, and lose 800 yourself, besides, the Western Wei army has now dealt with it, wait for work, burn the pontoon bridge, and tomorrow's class!" ”
At this moment, the sergeant outside shouted bustlingly: "The Western Wei army has crossed the pontoon bridge and is coming towards our army!" ”
Gao Huan immediately panicked, and said: "Don't panic, the general Ying Taishan collapsed in front of him and his face changed, I didn't expect that Yuwentai had so few men and horses, and he actually dared to take the initiative to attack my Eastern Wei Dynasty, and he didn't measure his strength, and immediately gathered troops for a decisive battle!" ”
Xue Xuan, the strategist beside him, hurriedly supported Gao Huan and said: "Prime Minister, at this time, our army is in a mess and has no ability to assemble, Prime Minister leave quickly, and I will be ashamed in the future!" ”
Although Gao Huan was supported, he took out his war knife and shouted at the top of his voice: "Yuwen Kurose, I am inseparable from you, and I am incompatible. ”
The strategist Xue Xuan calmly said to General Peng Le at this time: "The prime minister is out of control, and he orders you to lead the men and horses of your headquarters to resist the incoming army immediately, and the whole army retreats!" Gao Huan, who was out of control, was helped out of the big tent and fled all the way under the protection of the guard Xue Guyan.
Because Gao Huan's Chinese army tent is very conspicuous, so Li Bi and Yang Zhong led the troops to quickly insert Gao Huan's Chinese army tent, only to see that the Chinese army tent was empty, and quickly went out of the big tent to kill, at this moment the Eastern Wei army did not have time to react, chaotic, shouting bursts, fire everywhere, the fire illuminated the banks of the Yellow River, and all of them ran around.
General Yang Zhong came to a big tent, and Sima Ziru was packing his bags, but he was captured by Yang Zhong.
Su Sui, who was dressed in white and had fluttering hair, and was holding a torch on the top of the distant mountain at this time, witnessed all this, and said to the servant Su Tong beside him: "The sound is fierce, as I expected, the Eastern Wei army should have this defeat!" ”
Then he looked at the crowd on the other side of the pontoon bridge, as if he wanted to see what kind of person Yuwentai, the commander of the Western Army, was.
At this time, Yuwentai looked at the Eastern Wei army camp on the opposite bank that was disturbed by Governor Li Bi and General Yang Zhong, and saw the mountain in the distance, and suddenly saw a torch there that had not moved, so he asked Da Xiwu beside him and said: "General Da Xiwu, you look at the faint fire on the mountain in the distance, it seems that it is a person, witnessing all this there, did he have predicted that our army will come to sneak attack?" As he spoke, he pointed to the mountains on the other side of the Yellow River.
Da Xiwu continued: "Yes! It seems that that man had expected a sneak attack by our army. So he sighed and said: "The Eastern Wei army is really full of talents, and the man on the mountain has already foreseen it, but why doesn't the Eastern Wei army do defense?" Strange! He scratched his head as he spoke.
Yu Wentai was sure that since that person was watching there so calmly, it was not an ordinary person, so he ordered Da Xi Wudao: "Be sure to find out, who is that person on the mountain?"
Da Xiwu replied: "No, my lord! ”
I saw that at this time, the Governor of Li Bi and General Yang Zhong captured thousands of people and walked across the pontoon bridge.
Yuwentai saw that all the people came back and ordered: "Yuwenhu, burn the pontoon bridge immediately, and the class teacher will return to the court!" The young Yuwen immediately led his men to burn the pontoon bridge.
General Yang Zhong came to Yuwentai's side with a person and said, "Lord, this is Gao Huan's cronies, Sima Ziru!" ”
Yuwentai laughed and got off his horse to take a closer look and said: "Sure enough, it's Ziru brother, don't come unharmed, you and I were both in the Erzhu Rong Army as generals, it's really a change of time, thirty years in Hexi, and now you are my prisoner!" ”
Sima Ziru said pleadingly: "Brother Yuwen, the rope is too tight, can it be loose?" ”
Yuwentai motioned to Cai You to loosen the rope, and Cai You stepped forward to loosen the rope.
Sima Ziru asked helplessly, "Brother Yuwen is going to kill me?" ”
Yuwentai knew that although the Sima family was not as brilliant as before, after all, it was once a royal family, and the Sima family returned to their hometown to operate in order to avoid the extinction of the clan when Liu Yu established the Southern Song Dynasty, and they were also a local wealthy family, but they knew that this Sima Ziru had no talent, and he had always been a cronie of Gao Huan by relying on his whiskers and horses.
Yuwentai said to Sima Ziru: "Brother Ziru, the people of your Sima family, life is precious, follow me to Chang'an as a guest!" What do you think? ”
Sima Ziru was speechless.
Yuwentai seemed to remember something, so he turned around and saw that the Yellow River was full of firelight, thick smoke billowed up, and then looked at the distant mountain, the faint firelight was still there, and he was quiet for a while, and said loudly: "The generals will listen to the order, and the class teacher will return to Chang'an!" ”
Yuwentai followed the army at the end, walking and walking from time to time to look back at the faint fire on the mountain on the other side of the Yellow River, dragging his tired body and disappearing into the vast night.