When the situation in Longyou was about to undergo earth-shattering changes, the Central Plains also staged a drama of 'destroying the country', and the leader was the famous Murong Chui. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info

From the time of the attack on Teng Tian, the Taishou of Liyang in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, the Zhai Wei regime established by Ding Lingren Zhai Liao has been more than five years.

It is said that as a small regime sandwiched between the two great powers of the Eastern Jin Dynasty and the Later Yan, Zhai Wei should curry favor with him left and right.

But it's a pity that Zhai Liao fully proved to the outside world what it means to be immortal.

He first instigated the Eastern Jin Dynasty Taishan Taishou Zhang Yuan to rebel to the east; then attacked the Huaibei cities of the Eastern Jin Dynasty to the south; Finally, he also attacked Xingyang occupied by the Eastern Jin Dynasty to the west, threatening Luoyang, the old capital of the Eastern Jin Dynasty.

After offending the Eastern Jin Dynasty fiercely, Zhai Liao did not stop and continued his great cause of death.

Because Ding Ling's Zhai clan and Murong clan had a deep blood feud, Zhai Liao, Zhai Zhao's father and son sent troops to harass the southern border of Houyan from time to time, and instigated civil unrest in Houyan, which once threatened the safety of Yecheng, an important town in the south.

Since the beginning of spring this year, Zhai Liao has been seriously ill, and the power in the country has gradually been held by his son Zhai Zhao.

After Zhai Zhao came to power, he acted more radically and arrogantly than his father.

Not only did he constantly launch harassing attacks on Houyan Yecheng, but he also secretly united with Xiyan in an attempt to destroy Houyan together.

Some people may wonder why the kingdoms established by the two Xianbei tribes, Xiyan and Houyan, who are both Murong Xianbei and have the same clan, cannot live in harmony, but repeatedly attack each other.

In fact, there is a dispute over the legal system involved.

After the fall of Qianyan, returning to the east and restoring the country became a major political intention of the Xianbei Murong clan.

Murong Chui and Murong Yong are both descendants of the former Yan royal family, and after the collapse of the former Qin, they successively established the Later Yan and Western Yan, and they all claimed to have inherited the former Yan legal system.

After the establishment of Xiyan, it has always called for the return of the east to the country, in order to achieve the political goal of gathering and uniting the forces of the Murong family.

However, Murong Chui, who was also a member of the former Yan clan, established Houyan in Hebei, the hometown of Qianyan, and also called for the return of the east to the country.

As a result, between the former Yan clans, a battle for legal system was inevitable.

At the beginning of the establishment of Western Yan, in the vast Yellow River Basin, a total of many dynasties were announced, such as the former Qin, the Later Yan, the Western Yan, the Later Qin, the Western Qin, and the Later Liang.

Western Yan borders the Northern Wei Dynasty to the north; It is bordered to the east and southeast by Houyan; The west and southwest border with Later Qin, and can be said to be enemies on all sides.

In particular, the eastern and southeastern regions are surrounded by Houyan, and the situation of Xiyan is relatively passive.

Since the beginning of the founding of the country, Murong Yong has always been on the defensive, and never dared to take the initiative to provoke Hou Yan.

Later, in order to compete for the unified leadership of the Murong Ministry, Yan never forgot to eliminate Xiyan.

However, Murong Yong was unwilling to remain passive and self-controlled, and tried to ease relations with Tuoba, but the effect was good at first.

But recently, with the defeat of Shuofang, Tuoba Jue has become more and more dependent on Houyan, and he no longer dares to make eye contact with Xiyan.

Without the pressure shared by the Northern Wei Dynasty, Murong Yong became more and more trembling in the face of Hou Yan.

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In the palace, Murong Yong sat on the throne at this moment and was silent for a long time.

Next to him, the crown prince Murong Liang, Changshan Gong Murong Hong, Shang Shu Ling Diao Yun and other clan ministers held their breath and did not dare to disturb the lord of the country.

I don't know how long it took, Murong Yong raised his head and asked everyone.

"Ladies and gentlemen, Zhai Wei asked to send troops together to fight against Murong Chui, what do you think about this?"

The others looked at each other when they heard this, not knowing how to answer, and at the same time some couldn't guess Murong Yong's thoughts, Murong Yong was afraid of Murong Yong like a tiger in the past, and never dared to take the initiative to provoke, why did he suddenly become interested today.

Looking at the silent subordinates, Murong Yong was a little in a trance, and paused for a few breaths before asking and answering himself: "Forget it, let Zhai Wei toss it himself, let's not mix." ”

Hearing this, Xiyan's subordinates quietly breathed a sigh of relief, it was really Houyan who was too powerful, and it was definitely not something that Xiyan could provoke.

Shang Shulang and Bohai Bao Zun couldn't help but echo: "King Yingming, since Zhai Wei has the courage to attack Houyan, let Zhai Zhao fight, let's just hide on the side and watch the two tigers fight." ”

Seeing the unmotivated Manchu Dynasty civil and military, Zhang Teng, the Chinese scholar, couldn't stand it, and he stepped forward to advocate uniting with Zhai Wei.

"The disparity between the strength and weakness of Zhai Wei and Hou Yan is too great, what is there to sit and watch on the wall!?"

"It's better to send troops to rescue Zhai Wei to create a situation of confrontation."

"Even if the king is unwilling to fight Hou Yan head-on, he can also take advantage of Zhai Zhao's attack on Yecheng to send a small number of troops to Zhongshan, and disguise the brigade of men and horses, and use the strategy of encircling Wei to save Zhao, forcing Hou Yan to withdraw."

"In this way, we are vain in the rear, and Zhai Zhao is facing the enemy head-on, isn't this a heaven-sent opportunity to defeat Murong Chui?"

It's a pity that in the face of such a very insightful proposal, Murong Yong did not accept it, and others were not interested either.

At present, everyone is only focused on sticking to the Taihang Heavenly Danger and not letting the Houyan army advance westward.

As for the confrontation between Dongjin and Murong Chui, he didn't have much guts.

Zhang Teng said with a disappointed face: "The king doesn't need to be a minister today, once Zhai Wei perishes tomorrow, my country will be alone and will be destroyed by Murong Chui, and the king will regret it too late." ”

Murong Yong was still very concerned about his own safety, he listened to what Zhang Teng said, thought for a while and asked: "In the opinion of Lord Zhongshu, apart from uniting with Zhai Wei, is there any other way to curb Hou Yan?" ”

"Xiyan is weak and unable to face Houyan alone, so he can only unite with other countries to protect himself."

"At present, except for Zhai Wei, who is bent on forming an alliance with our country out of interests, others such as Northern Wei and Later Qin, either friendly with Hou Yan, cannot form an alliance with me; Either there is an enemy within me, and it will not help me much. ”

"The ministers think about it, only Hexi is expected to help the king."

"Hexi? Is that the Wei Shuo who defeated Tuoba Jue and occupied Shuofang? ”

"Exactly!"

"Hexi and Xiyan have no conflict of interest, but because they are mortal enemies with the Northern Wei Dynasty, they have certain strategic needs for our country."

"The king might as well send an envoy to Hexi to meet Wei Shuo, and share the benefits and disadvantages, and the two sides form an alliance to fight against Wei Yan."

"Well, yes, that's a good idea! What do you think? ”

"The ministers have no objections, and they are willing to listen to the king's orders."

"Okay, tomorrow, with Zhang Teng, the Chinese scholar, as a special envoy, I will go to Hexi immediately."

"Wechen obeys."

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When the news of Wei Shuo's defeat of Tuoba Jue and his dominance of Shuofang reached Hebei, Murong Chui was greatly stimulated.

In addition, since the beginning of spring, Zhai Wei has continued to provoke Hou Yan, although it did not cause much harm, but it completely angered Murong Chui.

He thought about it for a long time and decided to personally plan the operation to destroy Zhai Wei in order to cut off the threat of the southern line of Houyan.

Originally, he was worried that Xiyan would form an alliance with Zhai Wei, but he didn't think that Murong Yong would be incompetent and refused Zhang Teng's suggestion.

In this way, Murong Chui, who was carefree in the rear, could finally go south boldly with confidence.

In March, Murong Chui worshipped the queen of heaven in Zhongshan and officially led his army to defeat Zhai Wei.

In June, the Later Yan army advanced to Liyang (northeast of present-day Jun County, Henan), and the two armies confronted each other across the river.

Zhai Zhao camped on the south bank of the Yellow River, and when he saw that the enemy army was in good order, the generals of Houyan advised Murong Chui that it was not suitable to cross the river for the time being.

Unexpectedly, Murong Chui smiled and said disdainfully: "Zhai Zhao is just a stinky kid, and he has a little prestige when the old man has no time to look south." Wait and see how I capture this fang! ”

Then Murong Chui personally went out to observe the Zhai army camp, and he found that the Zhai army was well prepared, so he ordered the army to move westward, set up a large camp at the Xijin Ferry, and made a gesture of crossing the river from the upper reaches of the Yellow River.

When Zhai Zhao saw this scene, he was worried that the Yan army would cross the river from the Xijin Ferry, so he hurriedly left the camp and led the army west to Xijin.

After mobilizing Zhai Zhao with a little trick, Murong Chui secretly sent Murong Zhen, the king of Guilin, and Murong Guo, the hussar general, to lead the army to return to Liyang Ferry again at night, and crossed the Yellow River from Liyang Ferry that night.

At dawn, the vanguard of the Yan army successfully set up a large camp on the south bank of the Yellow River and held out without a fight.

When Zhai Zhao heard that the Yan army had crossed the Yellow River from Liyang, he hurriedly ran back from Xijin and attacked the Yan army's camp on the south bank.

However, Zhai Wei's army traveled back and forth for more than 80 miles in one day and one night, and they were already exhausted, and they couldn't capture this big camp at all.

At the same time, the main army of Houyan at the Xijin Ferry was also led by Murong Nong, taking advantage of the situation to cross the Yellow River from the Xijin Ferry, and followed Zhai Wei's army.

Seeing that the situation was not good, Zhai Zhao immediately ordered to flee.

When Murong Zhen and Murong Guo found out that Zhai Zhao was about to escape, they immediately seized the fighter plane, turned defense into attack, and led the army to take the initiative to kill from the camp, entangled Zhai Zhao to death.

At this time, Murong Nong also arrived in time, and attacked twice, breaking the Zhai Wei army.