In the battle of Taibi, it seemed that the two sides were evenly matched, but in fact, Liangyan suffered a big loss. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Before the war, there were 50,000 Houyan troops, but after the war, there were less than 30,000 left, and more than 40% of the people were killed and wounded.

Not only is there a huge loss in troops, but the grain and grass, which were not abundant before, are now becoming more and more stretched.

After the war, Hou Yan was practically unable to organize a large-scale offensive.

After careful consideration, Murong Chui decisively gave up continuing to march to his eldest son and led all the horses back to Hebei along the original route.

Failing to kill Murong Trai made the generals of Hexi a little regretful.

However, it successfully prevented Houyan from annexing Xiyan and realized the pre-war intention, which made everyone regret it with some relief.

A few days later, it was learned that Houyan had withdrawn, and the tripartite coalition army once again gathered forces to kill Luchuan and Huguan.

When the army arrived, the two places were empty, and the inside and outside of the city were in shambles.

It turned out that Murong Chui knew that it was difficult to hold the two places, so after burning, killing and plundering, he crossed the Taihang Mountain to the east along the Fukou and returned to the land of Hebei.

At this point, the Xiyan War, which lasted for nearly three months, came to an end.

In this battle, Xiyan lost more than 60,000 troops before and after, and more than 10 generals and colonels.

In addition, several cities were lost, countless people were killed and injured, and countless livestock and grain were lost.

For Xiyan, although he solved the danger of destroying the country, he paid a huge price, which can be regarded as a broken muscle, and his strength has been seriously weakened.

In addition to the huge losses of the two Yans, the losses of the Northern Wei Dynasty and Hexi were not large.

Among them, the Hexi Army suffered more than 4,000 casualties, but nearly 20,000 enemies were annihilated, which can be described as a brilliant victory.

Moreover, thanks to this 'hard work' performance, Hexi has temporarily won the trust of Murong Yong, laying the groundwork for the future false path to destroy Yu.

The performance of the Northern Wei Iron Cavalry was also remarkable, and it played a key role in the process of repelling Murong Chui.

However, the main general Tuoba Qian was not too happy about this, he knew that after this incident, the Wei Yan Alliance, which had been maintained for seven years, was about to disintegrate.

In short, due to the active intervention of Hexi and the Northern Wei Dynasty, Xiyan did not perish as once in history.

In terms of tactical losses, the Battle of Taibi can only be regarded as a lose-lose at best; However, strategically speaking, Hexi has won the first hand.

It not only achieved the goal of weakening Xiyan, but also successfully prevented Murong Chui from annexing the land of the Three Jin Dynasty and forced him to retreat.

In the end, it also successfully 'dragged the Northern Wei Dynasty into the water', providing operational space for the next vertical and horizontal exchanges between the states.

But no matter what, Murong Trai deserves to be the number one master of the art of war in the world.

In the process of destroying Xiyan, his application of tactics has reached its peak, perfectly embodying the essence of soldiers, that is, "soldiers are impermanent, and water is impermanent".

In order to mobilize the Western Yan army, Murong Chui used a tactic that was extremely rare in military history, in which the attacker defeated the unloading side with static braking.

Because Murong Yong is also a veteran general who has experienced a hundred battles, his level is not comparable to Zhai Zhao, so Murong Chui's methods of dealing with him are also very different from dealing with Zhai Zhao.

During the war, he continued to create and disseminate information to confuse the enemy, and in actual actions, he deliberately distanced himself from the information he had for Xiyan, and misled Murong Yong in many ways.

In the end, the suspicious Murong Yong misjudged the actions of the Hou Yan army, let go of the most critical Fukou Cheng, and ran back and forth for hundreds of miles in vain.

The Xiyan defenders, who should have been waiting for work, became a labor attack and completely lost the initiative.

As for attacking the wall, transferring the enemy into the urn, using a little trick, and ambushing Murong Yong, it was because Murong Yong couldn't help but have to fight that battle that was bound to lose.

If it weren't for the Northern Wei Iron Cavalry to participate in the war, even if Wang Zhenwei and 10,000 Hexi troops were there, they would not have been able to save the fate of Xiyan's destruction.

So much so that after the war, when the generals of Hexi repeated the battle on the sand table, they were all shocked by Murong Chui's profound art of war.

Among them, Tan Daoji has made a lot of profits, understood the truth that there are people outside the world, and rubbed off the only trace of pride in his heart, and eventually became a generation of famous generals.

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Unlike Murong Yong, who survived the disaster, Murong Chui, who returned to Zhongshan, was extremely indignant and shocked by the Northern Wei Dynasty's rescue of Western Yan.

It is often said that no one is perfect.

Heaven not only made Murong Trai an unborn military talent, but also gave him a relatively mediocre political IQ.

In other words, Murong Chui is suitable to be a military commander, but he is far from qualified as the head of a country.

Let's not mention that in history, he didn't use Murong Nong and Murong Long, but insisted on letting the loser Murong Bao take the throne.

Not to mention that Tuoba Jue has always had bad intentions towards Hou Yan, but for some reason, it seems that Murong Chui never had the intention of destroying the Northern Wei Dynasty.

As a result, it was Murong Bao and Tuoba Jue, who teamed up to bury Houyan Baye.

Historically, Murong Chui did not have a long-term strategy, but it was more reflected in the order in which he attacked Zhai Wei, Western Yan and Northern Wei.

Zhai Wei and Xiyan are all clowns who jump off the beam, and their strength is extremely weak, which is not enough to threaten Hou Yan, in fact, it is the Northern Wei that should really be eliminated first.

Unlike Murong Yong, who had no ambitions, Tuoba Jue had repeatedly expressed great ambition.

After Wei Yan united to destroy Tuoba Cave, Murong Chui sent people to Shengle to congratulate him, and planned to crown Tuoba Jue as the king of Xidan Yu and Shanggu.

Murong Chui's meaning is obvious: You will submit to me in the future, and I will give you an official promotion.

But Tuoba Jue has great ambitions, how can he be willing to be someone else's little brother? Even if this person is Murong Chui, it can't be.

So Tuoba sent someone to reply: Thank you very much for your help, but my ability is not enough, and I dare not accept this position.

The implication is: If you want me to be your subordinate, dream about it.

With Murong Chui's divine martial arts, how could he not see Tuoba Jue's ambition?

If Murong Chui had sent troops to conquer the Northern Wei Dynasty at that time, Tuoba Jue would definitely not have escaped destruction.

It's a pity that I don't know what's going on, and Murong Chui has always ignored Tuoba Jue's ambition and ambition.

As a result, when Tuoba Jue was full-fledged, he immediately broke off diplomatic relations with Houyan, and even reversed the balance of strength between the two countries in the first battle of Hepi.

This time, in the face of the Northern Wei Dynasty's intervention in the Western Yan War, although Murong Chui was extremely shocked, he still had no intention of conquering the Northern Wei Dynasty for the time being.

After the war, he simply sent someone to Shengle to ask what Tuoba Jue meant by this.

Speaking of which, Murong Trai's biggest problem is that he is not ambitious enough, and he does not have the ambition to dominate the world.

His dream is just to restore the old frontier of Qianyan, which he said and acted in history.

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The strong intervention in the war between the two Yan Dynasty made the Northern Wei Dynasty see Tuoba Jue's determination and ambition to unify the world, as well as his strong will to not be afraid of difficulties and the strength of the enemy, which made some people of insight in the Northern Wei Dynasty excited.

Although this battle failed to break the myth of Murong Chui's invincibility, it also made Tuoba Jue see clearly the essence of Houyan's strong and middle-class cadres.

It also made the Northern Wei Dynasty see the hope of entering the Central Plains, and it also made everyone more and more determined to break with Houyan.

The Han literati groups within the Northern Wei Dynasty encouraged Tuoba Jue to go south and compete with other forces for hegemony in the world.

Zhang Gon's younger brother Zhang Sui came to Saishang from the Central Plains and had nothing to do, but this time he took the opportunity to offer a southern expedition to Tuoba and encouraged the Northern Wei Dynasty to go south.

"Now there is a big chaos today, since the death of the Jin Dynasty, Liu Yuan, Shi Le, Murong Jun, Fu Jian, Yao Chang and other heroes of various ethnic groups have successively called the emperor and founded the country, but they are all defeated and prosperous."

"It can be seen that they are not the real sons of heaven that the people of the Central Plains are looking forward to."

"And the king has raised troops from the north, from the north to the south, and attacked Yan Zhao, which can achieve great things."

"If Lone raises troops to march south, what if Hexi sneaks up from behind?"

Although Tuoba Jue coveted the rich Hebei, he did not lose his mind, and was more worried about the sneak attack from behind Hexi.

After all, the Hexi garrison in Jiuyuan City, if you run for a long time, you can kill Shengle City in the blink of an eye.

"King, if you want to win over Hexi, you can only abandon Hou Qin."

"Abandon Hou Qin?"

"However, Wei Shuo has always had the will to enter Guanzhong in the east, and it is only because he is forced by the Qin-Wei alliance that he does not dare to act rashly."

"If the king is used as bait after Qin, Hexi will definitely not pull back when the Northern Wei Dynasty is Tu Houyan, and may even help."

"What does Hong Rang mean to say, abandon Hou Qin and re-ally with Hexi?"

"That's right! Now if the Northern Wei Dynasty wants to expand the chassis, it can only attack Houyan or Hexi. ”

"In that case, why don't you join forces with Later Qin to send troops to Hexi?"

"Sending troops to Hexi is too risky and the benefits are too small."

"There is no need for the minister to say anything, presumably the king also knows how difficult Wei Shuo is to deal with."

"Hexi's strength has grown since the implementation of the new policy, and it is by no means a momentary success."

"Even if Qin Wei succeeds in defeating Hexi, the Northern Wei will at most get Shuo Fang in their hands, but let Later Qin take the opportunity to invade Longyou, and then increase his strength greatly."

"Instead of making wedding dresses for others, it is better to turn to Houyan, whose strength has weakened."

"As long as you successfully occupy Hebei and Youyan, even if Hexi occupies Guanzhong, what can you do? In the end, it is still undecided who will win and who will lose. ”