Chapter 152 [The Great War]

The three years of the Great Unification were of great significance to Yuwentai and the Western Wei court, and the two consecutive years of severe drought led to a great famine in Guanzhong, and the people fled in all directions, and even the tragedy of changing children and eating, and the survival of the Guanxi regime became a problem. Under this grim situation, Gao Huan came to join in the fun again, and attacked twice in a year. No matter how difficult it was to prosper the country, Gao Huan's aggression stimulated Yuwentai's fighting spirit, and he calmly and decisively commanded two beautiful battles, which not only smashed Gao Huan's vain attempt to eliminate the Guanxi monopoly of Great Wei, but also defeated the famine by the way, and firmly consolidated the foundation of the Guanxi regime.

Immediately afterwards, Hedong, Shaojun, Luoyang into the pocket, Luoyang surrounding states continue to have righteous people attached, most of the Henan states for the Western Wei Dynasty, unfortunately, Dugu as he wished was not able to consolidate the fruits of victory, a few months of hard work, Gao Huan played a defensive counterattack, Nanfenzhou, Yingzhou, Guangzhou, Yangzhou fell again. However, Luoyang did not move at all, and Dugu and the generals of the Eastern Wei Dynasty have been in a stalemate in Henan.

The alliance with Rouran is Yuwentai's genius, since Rouran Khan has become the father-in-law of the Son of Heaven, it is expected to maintain a friendly and good-neighborly relationship for the happiness of his daughter, but the people of the grassland can't help but rob it, it doesn't matter, go to Kanto to rob it.

Therefore, while the Western Wei Dynasty temporarily relieved its worries, the Eastern Wei Dynasty and the Northern Xinjiang felt greater pressure, and the Rouran Jingqi would go south to plunder at any time. The Rouran people are holding Jinyang back, so Yuwentai believes that there will be a situation in Luoyang for a while, and Gao Huan only fights in the periphery of Luoyang, the reason is that he doesn't want to start a large-scale war, because Luoyang moves, Yuwentai will definitely come to help, and the two sides are bound to have another earth-shattering battle.

The Son of Heaven wants to return to his hometown to worship his ancestors. It is no wonder that the foundation of the Great Wei Dynasty is in Luoyang. Luoyang is where Zhengshuo is located, and there is always a suspicion of local warlords if they do not enter the Luoyang Guanxi government. Therefore, the emperor's worship of the ancestral tomb is not only a personal matter, but also an opportunity to declare that the Western Wei Dynasty is orthodox, so Yuwentai supports the eastern tour of the Yuan Bao Torch. But at this moment, Hou Jing and Gao Aocao suddenly moved, Luoyang was surrounded by heavy surrounds, and they couldn't take Luoyang's vow not to give up.

It seems that Gao Huan can't wait to expel the Western Wei forces from Henan, and Yuwentai feels that he already has the strength to crush Gao Huan's conspiracy. In the end, a series of victories made Yuwentai swell.

In July of the fourth year of the Great Unification of the Western Wei Dynasty (538 AD), the Western Wei court assisted the crown prince Yuanqin to stay in Chang'an with Zhou Huida, the left servant of Shangshu. The Guanzhong armies with the general of the chariot and the three divisions of the Yitong and the three divisions of Wang Meng were left behind in the later sections, and the thousands of cavalry led by the Kaifu Yitong and the three divisions of Li Bi and the general of the chariot and cavalry Da Xiwu were the vanguard, and the emperor Yuan Baoju and the prime minister Yu Wentai led the elite of the Western Wei Dynasty out of Tongguan, and the goal was directly aimed at Luoyang. Li Hu and the general Nian Xian were the main generals of the rear army to protect the emperor's ingots and torches.

During the Battle of Shayuan, Li Hu was unable to participate in the war in Longxi because the war in Longxi was not settled, and after the rebellion of the Qiang people in Tangchang was completely quelled, Li Hu returned to Chang'an and was promoted to the right servant of Shangshu and entered the Kaifu. Nian Xian was transferred back to Chang'an from Hezhou in the third year of Datong and recorded Shangshushi. Nian Xian's military title is the Great General, and he is above the Kaifu.

Forwards Li Bi and Da Xiwu arrived at Xiaoshui near Luoyang, and saw that it was getting late, so they camped and rested. At this time, the scouts came to report that a cavalry of the Eastern Wei Dynasty was coming to kill them.

It turned out that when the news of the arrival of the Western Army in Xin'an reached the city of Luoyang, Hou Jing, the commander of the Eastern Wei Dynasty, decided to wait for the battle. Wait for work, however. Yi Tong Sansi Mo Duo Lou was eager to make meritorious contributions, and asked to lead the troops to take advantage of the wind and dust of the Western Army's long road to invite attack. Hou Jing did not agree.

Mo Duolou is brave and imperious, plus he is a veteran of Gao Huanxin, and his qualifications are old enough to trust Gao Huan, so he didn't take Hou Jing in his eyes, Hou Jing agrees with admitting that you are a marshal, and if he doesn't approve of it, let's go it alone. Mo Duolou borrowed his friend with his friend, but Zhu Hun Daoyuan led his thousands of horsemen to send troops privately.

The commander of the Eastern Army is not a human worker, it is good to say that he has done a good job, and he has to bear the leadership responsibility if he does not do it well.

Therefore, Mo Duolou did not listen to the command, and Hou Jing had no way at all. Li Bi couldn't figure out the reality of the Eastern Army, so he ordered more campfires in the army, and the sergeants shouted together, Mo Duo Lou Yuanwen saw the fire in the Western Army Camp from afar, and his life was noisy, and he couldn't help but panic in his heart, and he originally pulled Zhu Hun Daoyuan to attack Yuwentai's vanguard camp, and the enemy in front of him turned out to be the main force of the Western Army, could it be that Yuwentai's army had been killed?

It is said that as soon as human beings think, God secretly laughs. If Mo Duolou Loan's tendons are twisted to the end, no matter if he rushes up for a while, he can't say who will die. It's just that Mo Duo Lou doesn't always think about problems with his heels, so the problem comes.

Modolou is impulsive, but self-aware. So when he decided that he had met Yuwentai's main force, he took it for granted that he couldn't do Yuwentai, who would do the loss-making business? So, he made a decision as quickly as he could: retreat. The delivery of commands takes time.

You must know that they are a cavalry, cavalry has speed, from forward to backward need to slow down, turn around, accelerate these processes, if the command is not right, the front team and the rear team do not act consistently, and the collision of horses and equipment is enough to make the team fall into chaos. In fact, the Eastern Army was in chaos, and probably the rear team was still figuring out why it was retreating, and the front team retreated.

The fighter plane is fleeting, Li Bi and Da Xiwu have been in battle for a long time and do not understand the key, so the western army immediately chased and killed, the cavalry was against each other, the first opportunity was the most important, the eastern army had lost its fighting spirit from the beginning of the retreat, and now it was impossible to organize decent resistance when encountering an attack, and everyone fled for their lives.

There was no way to run, the unorganized resistance met the organized attack was simply a massacre, the Eastern Army was defeated, thousands of cavalry died and surrendered, Mo Duolou was beheaded in the battle, only in the rear team Ke Zhu Hun Daoyuan saw that the situation was not good and fled back to the Eastern Army camp as soon as possible. Li Bi ordered the captured soldiers to be sent to Hongnong, which later proved to be a wrong plan. But as soon as Zhu Hun Daoyuan came back, Hou Jing knew that there was a big trouble.

Although Mo Duolou died in the first battle, although there was a reason for the incident and he took the blame, he could not escape the responsibility of leadership. Today's plan is to break the Western Army's capture of the black otter and make the blame.

The next day, Yuwentai's army arrived in the east and camped on the spot. That night, the ingot torch came to the Chinese army camp. The monarch and the minister have been thinking for a long time, and they plan to meet Dugu tomorrow as they wish. Hou Jing who flanked the besieged city. At the same time, an emergency military meeting was held at the top of the besieging forces. At the meeting, Hou Jing reported on the current complex situation, believing that if Yuwentai attacked with all his strength and Dugu killed Kim Yong Cheng as he wished, our army would be in danger of being attacked on the back of the enemy.

The generals offered suggestions one after another, and everyone believed that the eastern army was outnumbered and should be lined up on the ground to fight a decisive battle with the western army. Some people built yì to retreat to Heyin, and the open terrain between the river bridge and the mountain was most suitable for cavalry field battles. At last. Hou Jing synthesized everyone's opinions and formed a resolution as follows: withdraw the siege and go north, and wait for a decisive battle with Yuwentai in Heyin

Hou Jing already knew in his heart that Yuwentai had traveled thousands of miles to this point, and he would not be willing to fight a battle, not to mention that Mo Duolou Yuanwen died in a battle, and if the withdrawal at this time showed weakness to the enemy, Yuwentai must have thought that we were afraid of him and retreated, so he must come back for a decisive battle.

In this way, the besieging troops suddenly retreated to the north of the mountain. On the vast plain between the river bridge and the mountain, the north is arrayed according to the river bridge and the south belongs to the mountain, quietly waiting for the arrival of the western army.

There was no word all night, and the next day it was just dawn. Yuwentai got the news that Hou Jing was heading north, and the siege fence was empty. It's too uninteresting to say that you can run and run without even saying hello. What's more. It is unreasonable that the battle plan that had been carefully drawn up last night had suddenly been nullified. Yuwentai was in a hurry. Immediately gather light horsemen and horses to chase wildly, and seize some loot anyway.

For Hou Jing. Yuwentai didn't put it in his eyes, Hou Jing went to Pingliang on the order of Gao Huan, and was dismissed by Yuwentai with a word, among the generals of the Eastern Wei Dynasty, Gao Aocao and Peng Le were brave and invincible, and Hou Jing seemed to have been mediocre except for the vanguard of Er Zhurong back then.

In fact, only Gao Huan knows Hou Jing best, so this Henan military training did not choose Gao Aocao, Peng Le, Ke Zhu Hun Daoyuan, etc. as the commander, and the choice of Hou Jing naturally has his reasons, Hou Jing was born with a cripple, and he was immediately poor in kung fu, and he didn't know a few big characters, but if you want to say that there are still people in this world who don't learn and skill, Hou Jing is one.

Readers always think that illiterate people have little knowledge, this is a kind of arrogant psychology of readers, society is a big school, isn't there such a sentence, the insight into the world is knowledgeable, and the practice of human feelings is the article, Chen Liuzi in the TV series "Big Dyeing Workshop" is like a cloud in the shopping mall, but he is also illiterate.

Hou Jing is an open-minded person, he understands his weaknesses, so he can give full play to his strengths as much as possible, since the body is not good, we will work our brainpower, so I have nothing to think about how to arrange the troops, at the beginning, the first wise general Murong Shaozong under Baier Zhu Rong asked for advice on the art of war, and later the teacher often listened to the opinions of the students when he encountered problems.

Gao Aocao and Peng Le were fierce generals in the Eastern Wei Dynasty, but Hou Jing never took them in his eyes, and he took the lead in charging into battle but with the courage of a horseman, no matter how great your ability is, no matter how good your kung fu is, how much role can you play in thousands of armies and horses, and the combat comparison of the large corps is actually not kung fu, but wisdom. Yu Wentai was a little underestimated, he never dreamed that his trip was almost wiped out, and he almost lost all his hard-earned capital.

Zhu Li of the Western Wei Dynasty was very good at that time, Li Bi, Li Mu, and Li Hu were all outstanding people. The fundamental reason why Wei Zhou was able to defeat Wei Qi was that he used people properly. The lord succeeded by Zhou, one is wiser than the other, and the lord succeeded by Qi is more deaf than the other, what is the point of not dying.

On the fourth day of August, the weather was cloudy, and the fog was heavy in the Heyin area. Yu Wentai quickly caught up with Hou Jing, and he vaguely felt that something didn't seem right. Through the mist, Yuwentai was surprised to see that Heyin was covered by a large red cloud, the soldiers of the Eastern Army were bright in armor, the cavalry and infantry were lined up neatly, the bows were wound, the swords were unsheathed, and the horses and spears were lined up.

It was also a little proud after the new victory, and more to underestimate Hou Jing's ability, after a little hesitation, Yuwentai sent a signal to fight, and he personally commanded the Western Army to start charging the battle, and the two sides began to fight.

The battle was fierce, the cavalry and infantry fought together, the cries of swords and lances, the screams of arrows piercing through the air, and the wails of wounded soldiers were intertwined, and the air was filled with a thick smell of blood.

Suddenly, a stray arrow hit Yuwentai's war horse, and the war horse rushed away with a scream of pain, and in a blink of an eye, Yuwentai's left and right guards were thrown off, Yuwentai was still awake under the fright, and he saw the opportunity to jump off the horse,

The war horse got rid of the heavy weight, became lighter, spread the joy of the swaddling body, and spread the joy of the body, and the sorrow of the hairpin milk was arrogant, and the hairpin milk was sneering, and the hairpin milk was unbearable. It has long been lost the demeanor of the commander of the Western Army. When the nearby soldiers of the Eastern Army saw someone fall off their horses, they all waved their big guns and raised machetes to surround them.

Yu Wentai sighed: I don't want the black otter to die here today. In the romance, whenever the protagonist encounters danger, there is always a savior falling from the sky: Lord, don't be scared, a certain family will come to help. Then, the Fallen Soldier rescues the protagonist. Will Yuwentai be so lucky?

Yuwentai was about to fight with the Eastern Army with a saber in his hand, and suddenly a war horse flashed next to him, and before he could see who was on the horse, he heard a snap. was slashed on the head and in the face by someone who came and whipped him.

> Egg, where is the Lord, and how has he fallen behind? The nearby Eastern Wei soldiers laughed, they saw a Western army officer holding a horsewhip to reprimand the Western army soldiers, the officer did not seem to have a big official position, everyone gathered here and there was not much oil and water to fish, so except for a few soldiers approached, a large number of people turned to other places to catch big fish.

The person who came was Governor Li Mu. It turned out that Li Mu saw Yuwentai fall from a distance, and he knew that if the Eastern Army recognized Yuwentai's identity. will definitely besiege with all his strength, and when Qianjun was shot, Li Mu came over and gave Yuwentai a whip, and he couldn't care so much. Saving lives matters.

Li Mu dismounted and let Yuwentai ride his war horse, and giving up the war horse at this time was tantamount to abandoning his life. Yu Wentai turned over on the horse with tears in his eyes. The eastern army surrounded him, and Li Mu waved his lance to cover Yuwentai's escape.

At this time, Yu Wentai's nephew Wei Chi Gang also rushed over. The two joined forces to repel the Eastern Wei soldiers, and the Yuwentai wolf bèi fled back to his team. Afterward. Yuwentai was moved by Li Mu's loyalty every time he thought of this scene, and he said to everyone affectionately: The most precious thing in a person is life, and Li Mu can give up his life to save himself from danger, even if he is crowned with a big title and rewarded with more jade silk, it is not enough to repay him for saving his life.

Having said that, Yu Wentai still found a way to repay him, he gave Li Mudan an book iron coupons, promising to forgive Li Mu for ten capital crimes, which is a later story, not to mention for the time being. Earlier, Yuwentai's war horse fled in the wilderness, and rushed to the rescue from the left and right, but as soon as they went, they sank into the sea and there was no news, and many people in the Western Wei army thought that Yuwentai was more auspicious and less auspicious, and everyone was uneasy.

When Yuwentai came back safely, the main force of the Western Army had already rushed over, Dugu Ruyi and Li Yuan also brought the Luoyang garrison, everyone saw that Yuwentai was still healthy, and their hearts were steady, so the Western Army cheered up again.

Yuwentai redeployed the sequence of the participating troops, Dugu Ruyi and Li Yuan led the department as the right wing, Zhao Gui and Yifeng as the left wing, and the strikers were still Li Bi and Da Xiwu, and Yuwentai led the Chinese army. The Western Army began to organize a counterattack, at this time he saw Gao Aocao's banner, Gao Aocao has always despised the Western Army, before the war, he ordered people to make the Zuò Daxu flag, with a big "Gao" character written on it, lest the Western Army do not know that Gao Situ is here.

For Gao Aocao, Yuwentai knows too well, this is Gao Huan's most elite Han army, claiming to have never suffered defeat since Han Lingshan, Yuwentai is determined to defeat Gao Aocao, he gave an order to all armies: attack Gao Aocao's Han army. So, the armies of the Western Wei Dynasty began to attack Gao Aocao in turn, the tiger was difficult to defeat the wolves, Gao Aocao finally couldn't stand it, Yi Tong Li Meng, and Song Xian, the assassin of West Yanzhou, were killed, the Han army was annihilated, Gao Aocao fled on a single horse, and the Western army chased closely.

Gao Aocao arrived at the city of Heyang, and asked the guard to open the city of Gao Yongle and let himself in, but Gao Yongle and Gao Aocao have not dealt with each other, and now seeing that the great opportunity is coming, he refused to open the door with a thought, Gao Aocao slashed the city gate, and the Western Wei army chased after him, Gao Aocao turned over and jumped under the river bridge to hide.

The pursuers followed up and grabbed Gao Aocao's slave, they pressed the knife on the slave's neck and forced Gao Aocao's whereabouts, from the slave trembling and pointed to the bridge, Gao Aocao saw it clearly, knowing that his hiding again was tantamount to self-inflicted humiliation, since it was inevitable to die today, death also has the spirit of a hero, so he jumped out of hiding and shouted: Come, take the head of the master to change the country. The western army surrounded him, threw Gao Aocao to the ground, cut off his head, and passed the front battle.

Yuwentai was overjoyed, and opened his mouth to announce that he would reward the person who took the head of Gao Ao Cao, ten thousand pieces of cloth, which made the Ministry of Finance of the Western Wei Dynasty very nervous, and could not pay it off at one time, so he wrote a check with no expiration date, and cashed a little bit a year, and it is said that it was not paid off until the fall of the Northern Zhou Dynasty.

Gao Aocao's death shocked the Eastern Army, those Xianbei generals who sat on the mountain and watched the tiger fight in the fierce battle between the Han Army and the Western Army were dumbfounded, they never dreamed that Gao Aocao would die lightly, the momentum was gone, only the thought of saving his life remained, and the Eastern Army fell into chaos. Zhu Li of the Western Wei Dynasty was very good at that time, Li Bi, Li Mu, and Li Hu were all outstanding people. The fundamental reason why Wei Zhou was able to defeat Wei Qi was that he used people properly. The lord succeeded by Zhou, one is wiser than the other, and the lord succeeded by Qi is more deaf than the other, what is the point of not dying. There are two people surnamed Li in the Eight Great Pillar Kingdoms, and it seems that no one can stop the surname Li if he is developed.

The defeat was like a mountain, and countless Eastern Wei troops died by throwing themselves into the river, and 15,000 soldiers were captured. The eastern army scrambled to cross the river, the western army pursued by victory, seeing that the river bridge was not guaranteed, at the critical moment, Wan Qian was not crossed the river with the big stream, he led his troops to stand at the head of the bridge and put on a posture of not wanting to die, and finally stopped the offensive of the western army, Wan Qian was protected by Luogan to keep the throat of the river, laying the foundation for the Eastern Army to turn around.

On the north bank of the Yellow River, Gao Huan's former army has arrived at the river bridge under the leadership of Wei Digan, and the soldiers of the Eastern Wei Dynasty who crossed the north saw that the reinforcements had arrived, and everyone was relieved, so the governors of the various armies began to collect their soldiers, and under the leadership of Hou Jing, the northern and eastern armies returned to the south one after another and returned to the Heyin battlefield.

The generals of the Eastern Wei Dynasty began to organize a counteroffensive. The shape on the battlefield suddenly reversed, the iron cavalry of the Eastern Army began to charge into battle, the infantry of the Western Army suffered heavy casualties, and the light cavalry of the Western Wei Dynasty was divided, surrounded, and strangled. Li Bi almost hung up.

Li Bi was wounded in seven places all over his body, and he was captured with all his strength, he pretended to die of exhaustion, and fell to the ground, because the battle was too fierce, the Eastern Wei soldiers did not care about the life or death of a prisoner, nor did they care about cutting off his head. Li Bi lay on the ground and pretended to be dead, his eyes squinted to observe the movements around him, and he saw the opportunity to jump on an ownerless war horse and return to his own formation. (To be continued......)