Chapter 146 [The War Begins]
At this time, Yuwentai finally figured it out, it turned out that Dou Tai was the main attacker of the Eastern Army! If our army goes to Pusaka to block Gao Huan, once Dou Tai succeeds, the two sides will fight together to flank our army, and then our army will lose its footing, but it will be dangerous. And Gao Aocao is only a partial division, and his role is to cause panic in Chang'an and make our army's troops on the southern front dare not move. Yu Wentai fell into deep thought:
Gao Huan attacked Tongguan twice, but our army did not dominate, he must have thought that I would still take a defensive position this time, if I took this opportunity to send troops to attack, I would definitely be able to surprise and succeed. The target he chose to attack was not Gao Huan in Hedong, but Dou Tai, who came to Tongguan.
Yuwentai summoned the generals to bring out their ideas and plates, and the generals in the tent were in an uproar, leaving the enemy close in front of them not to fight, but to attack far away.
Some people proposed to divide their forces to resist. However, after all, the number of troops in Guanzhong is limited, and Yuwentai does not have many troops to divide at all, not to mention, once the troops are divided, the situation of the enemy will be even more severe, and it is a helpless and correct choice to concentrate superior forces to attack the enemy. Fighting Dou Tai must be quickly resolved, once lost or a tug-of-war is fought, Gao Huan will definitely take the opportunity to advance, which is one of the reasons why the generals doubt Yuwentai's battle plan.
& Gao Huan will not cross the river within five days, even if the 100,000 troops cross the river, it is not so easy to get through, Dou Tai will definitely not be able to capture Tongguan in five days, and five days is enough to deal with Dou Tai. Among the Wenchens, only Xingtai Zuo Cheng Su Sui, and among the military generals, only the Eastern Qinzhou Assassin Shi Da Xi Wu agreed with Yu Wentai's opinion.
Although there are not many people who support it, how can the things that Yuwentai has decided change lightly? On the same day, Yuwentai quietly returned to Chang'an with 6,000 elite horsemen. The purpose of returning to Chang'an was to meet two people, one was Emperor Wei Wen. Major events still have to be communicated with the emperor, which reflects respect. The other person is named Yu Wenshen. It is the nephew of Yuwentai's own family, and he is currently serving as a straight secretary of Shangshu.
Yuwenshen is of the same clan as Yuwentai, and when it comes to the generation of Xiaoyuwentai, when the descendants of Yuwenguo were sent to Wuchuan, they have always stayed with the emperor as a big official.
Yuwenshen's elder brother Yuwen measured as the concubine of Emperor Xuanwu of the Great Wei Dynasty, and was an important figure who instigated Emperor Xiaowu to move west.
Yuwen is forgiving. The history books recorded one of his stories, once his wife Princess Yangping's clothes were stolen, and the people in the state and county who solved the case were all stolen, so Yuwen Measurement went to identify it, but Yuwen Measurement took into account the special identity of his wife, and if he identified it, the thief would definitely die, so he denied it. Later, the thief was pardoned and released, and Mao recommended himself to be Yuwen's left and right personal soldiers, and since then he has followed him. Never give up.
Yuwen is deeply upright, good at studying the arrangement of troops, good at using tactics, and started as a secretary during the Yongan period. When it comes to current affairs, his opinions often make Er Zhurong look at it differently. Later, Yizi Du led the Su guards and moved westward with filial piety. Yuwen Shen followed the customs. In Yuwentai's eyes, Yuwenshen is Chen Ping in the Yuwen family.
So Yu Wenshen's opinion is very important. Yu Wentai explained the shape of the former enemy to Yu Wenshen clearly. No comments were made, however. Yuwen thought for a moment and said categorically: "If the army attacks Pusaka." Dou Tai attacked from behind, and our army was attacked by the enemy, which is the real way to use troops.
It's better to go out of the small pass, Dou Tai is impetuous, and he will definitely come to the decisive battle, and Gao Huan is more than cautious, and he will definitely not cross the river to respond, this is our opportunity. If Dou Tai loses, Gao Huan will naturally be angry, and if he returns to the division and fights again, he will definitely be able to break the East Thief. Yu Wentai smiled: "The plan of the slave is very much in line with my heart." ”
Nugan is the character of Yuwenshen. The so-called coincidence, Yuwentai had a bottom in his heart, so he made up his mind to fight this battle. Chang'an City rumored that Yuwentai wanted to surrender Longyou to avoid the Eastern Wei army, and the people in the capital were shocked, and it was said that the rich people had begun to pack up and prepare to move.
The meticulous workers of the Eastern Wei Dynasty sent this information to the Eastern Wei camp in a steady stream, and Gao Huan was even more proud of his genius, and he waited for Dou Tai's good news with greater patience, not realizing that he had been caught in the bureau arranged by the Yuwen Black Otter.
In fact, on the fifteenth night of the first lunar month, Yuwentai had already led the elite cavalry to quietly move in the direction of Xiaoguan south of Tongguan, and two days later arrived at Ma Muze, Ma Muze's area was deep and densely grassed, which was most suitable for ambush, and Yuwentai led the generals to hide here and quietly wait for Dou Tai's arrival. When Dou Tai sent out the army, he had already received Gao Huan's instructions.
Don't take it lightly and fight a decisive battle with the Western Army, waiting for Yuwentai to concentrate the main force on the Pusaka line before attacking Tongguan with all his might, so Dou Tai has been operating on the periphery of Tongguan, he has not noticed the movement of the Western Army at all, according to the scout and detailed report, he thought that Yuwentai had been stationed in Guangyang to wait and see. Dou Tai traveled to Ma Muze, Yuwentai suddenly killed, one party came prepared, and the other party was caught off guard.
Dou Tai hurriedly planned to line up against the mountain, but before he had time to put up the formation, Yuwentai gave an order, Li Bi and Yifeng rushed to the Eastern Army first, and the cavalry of the Western Army covered up, if there was no formation in cavalry combat, there was no need for the enemy to attack, it was just a collision between their own horses and trampling, the Eastern Wei army was about to collapse, Dou Tai saw that the general trend had gone, in order to avoid being captured and humiliated, he killed himself with a horizontal knife, and more than 10,000 Eastern Wei soldiers threw away their weapons and made prisoners. Several people ran to Hongnong and were locked up by Liu Gui, the general of the Eastern Wei Dynasty stationed in Hongnong, and escorted to Jinyang to wait for Gao Huan to deal with.
When Dou Tai set off from Yecheng, there was a rumor in the city that a nun named Huihua made a rumor "Dou Xingtai, don't go back", and some people said that they once saw thousands of red-clothed messengers coming to Yushitai in the middle of the night and threatening to "accept Lieutenant Dou".
When Dou Tai was in ambush, Gao Huan was still watching from the east of the river, and he was looking forward to Yuwentai confronting him across the river or crossing the river to fight, however, he was disappointed, and after a few days, the west bank of the Yellow River still did not see the shadow of the Western Army.
The reason why Gao Huan didn't want to cross the river was that he was worried that if the front army was attacked by Yuwentai, the rear army would not be able to respond at all, and this had already been seen through by Yuwentai.
In fact. As Yuwentai expected, there was no definite news of Dou Tai's army or the exact movements of the Western Army led by Yuwentai. Gao Huan didn't dare to cross the river at all, waiting for the news of Dou Tai's defeat to come over. Gao Huan was like a blow to the head, only then did he know that he had fallen into the black otter's plan, and he couldn't help but cry bitterly, who is Dou Tai, his most powerful general and his brother-in-law, Dou Tai's death made Gao Huan feel like a mourner, but Gao Huan quickly calmed down and immediately ordered the pontoon bridge to be dismantled and withdrawn from the entire line.
It was already too late, and Yuwentai led the victorious army to rush over. To protect the retreat of the Great Army. Xue Guyan, the fierce general behind the palace of the Eastern Wei Army, cut fifteen big knives in one day, you must know that the swords of the Eastern Wei Army are made by the famous smelting expert Qi Mu Huaiwen's Su Iron Knife, which can cut through thirty heavy armor in a row, which can also show the fierceness of the battle.
In the first battle of Xiaoguan, Li Bi, the general of the hussars, Kaifuyi and the third division, made the greatest contribution, and Yuwentai rewarded Li Bi with his mount and the captured Dou Tai armor. After Gao Huan was defeated and left, news also came from Luozhou that Shangluo had fallen and Quanqi's father and son were captured. Shangluo is a gateway in Guanzhong, if Gao Aocao continues to march into the army, Chang'an has no danger to defend.
Yuwentai was not nervous, he concluded that under the shape of Dou Tai giving the head Gao Huan to retreat. Gao Aocao didn't dare to go deep alone. Gao Aocao was the smoothest of the Eastern Wei Army's three-way army, and although there were many troubles along the way, Gao Aocao's Han army came from the Green Forest. It is a super army composed of heroes, robbers, and heroes, and it is easy to deal with local tyrants. Therefore, Gao Aocao passed all the way and killed Shun Lì to the bottom of Shangluo City.
The Quanjia army resisted stubbornly under the leadership of the assassin Shi Quanqi's father and son. Quanqi fought against Xiao Baokun's rebels that year, and was promoted to General Zuo and the history of Xizhou Assassin with merit. Later, he turned to the history of Dongyongzhou Thorn, and cracked down on Haoqiang during the state, so that Huayin Zhuyang did not dare to make any changes.
Quanqi is honest and clear, and even the rice eaten is transported from Shangluo, which is rare, so the officials of Dongyongzhou are all grateful to Dade. Weixing County of the Liang Dynasty bordered Luozhou, and the local Haoqiang requested to be attached, and the imperial court appeased the people of Quanqi with the high prestige of the Quanqi and the Shengquan Enterprise as the Shangshu of Xingtai.
Emperor Xiaowu Yuanxiu took Quanqi as the assassin and governor of Luozhou, and entrusted the affairs of Shannan. Yuan Xiu ran west, Gao Huan went down to Tongguan, Quanqi sent his son Quan Yuanli to lead his troops to 5,000 north out of Dagu, and most of the counties in Dongzhou fell into the hands of the Eastern Wei Dynasty, but Shangluo Gaohuan did not dare to provoke lightly. Gao Huan was reluctant to do the thing of killing 1,000 enemies and losing 800, but although Gao Huan did not send troops, he kept sending people to Luozhou to lure and incite the unstable elements in Shangluo.
This time, Gao Aocao oversaw the army coming, Luozhou Haoqiang Governor Quanyue, Quan Mengluo and Du Cave and other plans to counter the water to meet the Eastern Army, Quan Qi found out that the decisive kill Quan Yue and others, Du Cave escaped and defected to Gao Aocao, Gao Ao Cao used it as a guide to kill under the city of Shangluo.
Two fierce men encountered, and a vicious battle was inevitable. Quanqi took his two sons Yuanli and Zhongzun to resist desperately, Gao Aocao was almost killed by a stray arrow, but the lonely city was besieged for a long time, the reinforcements did not arrive, and the arrows in the city were also shot out, Quanqi's second son Quan Zhongzun's eyes were injured, and Guo Yan, who came from Hongnong, saw that the city was about to break, and looked up to the sky and cried: "Providence, providence, what reason is there to help the rebellion or not to help the Shun?" The soldiers were inspired by it and were willing to fight to the death to live and die with the city. In the end, the city broke and the whole family, father and son, Guo Yan was captured.
Gao Aocao understands the importance of treating captives preferentially, so he doesn't want to embarrass the Quan's father and son and Guo Yan. Guo Yan didn't appreciate it, he said to Gao Aocao: The minister of the Son of Heaven, he doesn't want to be held by the traitor, he is willing to kill and kill, and he will give him a good time.
Gao Aocao had long known Guo Yan's name, so he didn't care about it, and sent someone to send it to Bingzhou for Gao Huan to deal with personally. Just when Gao Aocao was about to continue the march, Gao Huan sent a letter ordering him to abandon the army and flee.
Gao Huan knew that once the news of his defeat spread, the grass on the walls in Henan and Shannan would definitely mutiny, and there was almost no possibility that Gao Aocao's entire army would return, so Gao Huan decided to lose his pawn to protect the commander, and keeping Gao Aocao was equivalent to keeping this banner of the Han army.
But Gao Aocao couldn't bear to abandon the subordinates who died with him, so he decided to take everyone home with him. Gao Ao Cao left, with Du Cave as the history of Luozhou, and brought Quan Qi and his eldest son Quan Yuanli back to the east, and Quan Zhongzun, the second son of Quan Qi, stayed at home to recuperate because of his injuries.
On the way, Quan Yuanli fled back and met with Quan Zhongzun, they secretly contacted the clan Haoqiang to plot to recover the city, and the local people were already heavy on the spring and light on Du, and there were many people who responded. As a result, the Quanjia brothers led the villagers to attack the state city, beheaded Du Gu, and sent his head to Chang'an. As a reward, the Western Wei Dynasty took Quan Yuanli as the hereditary Luozhou Thorn History. The legend of the Izumi brothers will continue.
Erzhurong, that Qihu has already argued for the predecessors that it belongs to the Qihu. It seems that Mr. Chen Yinke said that Wei Shui changed it in order to beautify Er Zhu Rong, and the reputation of Qianhu in history is indeed not very good. It is said that the Xiongnu is another tribe. I understand that the meaning of other tribes is that they are not mainstream, not descendants, and belong to the tribes that were annexed after the conquest of the Xiongnu. Chen Yinke argues that he is a native of the Dayue clan, characterized by a high nose and deep eyes.
They suffered many casualties under Ran Min's policy of killing Hu, but one of the tribes survived tenaciously and seized the opportunity to swear allegiance to the rising Tuoba Xianbei, thus receiving preferential treatment and maintaining the tribal system in the reform of the scattered tribes. Xiurong belongs to the state of Yanzhou, which is in present-day Yizhou, Shanxi.
The Azhiro are a high-chariot tribe. Living in the Yuanzhou area, there have been repeated in history, Zhengguang years ago accepted the Great Wei Dynasty Zhao'an, and after the Six Towns Uprising, he also betrayed the imperial court with the tide. Gao Huan keenly saw the importance of the strategic position of the Azhiluo people's residence, so he deliberately appeased,
The Azhiluo people are known as 100,000 households returning to Shun, and the Eastern Wei court specially managed Gao Huan as the main platform.
Nomads always live in pursuit of water and grass, and their place of residence is very uncertain, so many celebrities from the Northern Dynasty who were born in the Hu people cannot say where they originate.
I have to talk about generations in general terms, etc. Huns. Xianbei people, Rouran people, Turkic people, Khitan people, etc. All had lived in the northern savannah, and the latter must have been inextricably linked to the former, and it is difficult to accurately determine the origins of their tribes.
But. The Hu people who entered the Central Plains often called the people who continued to live on the grassland to herd sheep and horses as Hu people, saying that you were Hu people was tantamount to scolding you for being uneducated. The contradiction is with. These people also scolded the Han Chinese.
Xiaoguan fought Yuwentai to kill Dou Tai but Gao Huan achieved the first big victory after the separation of the two Wei families, and the generals of the Western Wei Dynasty who participated in this battle, such as He Basheng, Li Bi, Hou Mo Chen Chong, several Hui, Yifeng, Liu Liang (formerly known as Liu Daodao), Da Xiwu, etc., also wrote a glorious stroke in their resumes.
Ko Luo, Zhao Gui, Yu Jin, Dugu Ruwish, and Li Hu, who are as famous as Yu Wentai, did not participate in this battle. At that time, Dugu Ruyi and Ko Luo guarded the imperial city of Chang'an to protect the emperor, Li Hu and Zhao Gui joined forces to deal with the Qiang tribe led by the rebellious Liang Yanding in Hezhou, Yu Jin was the assassin of Northern Yongzhou, and had just quelled the rebellion of the Yang family, because Northern Yongzhou was connected to the eastern soil, so Yuwentai did not dare to let him leave, however, his eldest son Yu Wei has been following Yuwentai.
Although the threat of Gao Huan was temporarily lifted, Yuwentai was still not easy at all, because he still had a bigger enemy to face, this enemy could not be solved by stratagem and the bravery of the generals, and it took greater wisdom to solve this enemy, this enemy is called a natural disaster.
In many cases, farming and nomadism have to rely on the weather for food, as long as the wind and rain are good, the crops grow well, and the grass is vigorous, in order to keep the harvest of the year, once there is a drought and little rain in the year, the people will face hunger. The great drought in Kansai began in the second year of the Great Unification and lasted until the third year of the Great Unification, and the summer grain output was once again greatly reduced, and the grain collected by the common people could not survive the winter at all, and the government's grain collection work was in a predicament. The grain could not be harvested, and even the supply of military rations in Chang'an became a problem.
At this time, Yuwentai had already carried out a large-scale reorganization of the Western Wei army, and organized the division of a hundred battles that had been inherited from the era of He Bayue into the 12th army as his descendant troops, with 1,000 people per army, led by Li Bi, Dugu Ruwish, Liang Yu, Zhao Gui, Yu Jin, several Hui, Yifeng, Liu Liang (Liu Daodao), Wang De, Hou Mo Chen Chong, Li Yuan, Da Xiwu and other twelve generals.
& Book. Liu Liangchuan: And Taizu placed the 12th Army, and General Jian Zhu led the 1st Army. Every expedition, often with Yifeng are both riders. )
In order to deal with hunger, Yu Wentai scattered all kinds of people and horses who were not related to each other to various states and counties, and ordered the county guards of each state and county to collect food and pay the army from the people, no matter what means were taken, to get through the difficulties first. The common people did not have much food at home, and if they were taken away by the government, they would have to starve, so the people complained, and some people began to flee their homes and become homeless.
Chen Ping Yuwen of the Yuwen family offered a strategy for Yuwentai. He built yì Yuwentai sent troops to seize the Hongnong County controlled by the Eastern Wei Dynasty, Hongnong area this year the wind and rain are smooth grain harvest, it is said that the grain mountain in Hongnong City, such a large granary, is very important to the lack of grain in Guanzhong. But Hongnong is connected to Henan, and it is easy for Luoyang to send troops to rescue, but Yuwentai can't take care of so much, and let's solve the current crisis first.
In August of the third year of the unification of the Western Wei Dynasty (537 AD), Yuwentai led 12 generals to the east, with the northern Yongzhou assassin Shi Yu Jin as the vanguard to march to Hongnong, and He Basheng as the governor of the Chinese army to cross the river to conquer the east of the river. When the soldiers arrived at Tongguan, Yuwentai issued a military order: "With you, you will be in the sky, and you will be punished for rioting." Weiershi, the whole armor soldiers, refrain from Errong affairs, no greed for money to underestimate the enemy, no mob to threaten.
If you use your life, you will be rewarded, and if you don't use your life, you will be killed. All the people are reluctant to do it. "The use of elegant writing, or Zhou He's genre, when it comes from Su Xuan's hand, is nothing more than to warn the generals not to be greedy for money and underestimate the enemy, not to bully the people to be pretentious, to reward with life, and to kill without life.
Yu Jin led the vanguard to attack Pandou, and the Eastern Wei defender Gao Shuli surrendered, and the defenders were captured by 1,000. Yuwentai's army marched to Hongnong, caught up with the heavy rain for several days, the armies braved the rain to attack the city, and soon the city collapsed, beheaded Li Huibo, the assassin of Shaanzhou in the Eastern Wei Dynasty, captured 8,000 soldiers, and the guard Gao Gan crossed the river and fled, and was captured by the interception of the Taishi He Basheng who crossed the river first.
Gao Shuli and Gao Gan were escorted to Chang'an. Li Huibo is the Li descendant who was detained by Er Zhurong in the Camel and Cattle Department after betraying Yang Jin to dedicate Dingzhou to Du Luo Zhou, and Huibo is the character of Li Yi.
Although Li Yi is dead, his sons and daughters will still be active on the stage of the Northern Dynasty. His eldest son inherited his title in the Eastern Wei Dynasty, the younger son was exiled in Chang'an and later became an official and lived until the Great Sui Dynasty, and his daughter Li Changyi married Gao Zhongmi, a powerful man in the Eastern Wei Dynasty, because she would also cause a shocking war between the East and the West. Not only that, but Li Changyi even affected the political situation of the Northern Qi Dynasty, which was in the same vein as the Eastern Wei Dynasty.
Don't underestimate the little women in history, they often play a key role in the critical moment of history's progress. Yang Ji, who followed Yuwentai, asked to go to Shao County to lobby the local tyrants to submit to obedience, it turned out that his father had been a county magistrate in Baishui County, Shao County, and had some friendship with the local wealthy families.
Yuwentai agreed, Yang Jian saw the local tyrant Wang Fulian, and under his persuasion, Wang Fulian raised troops to revolt, killing the four people of the Eastern Wei County Shoucheng Baohe County Commander, and Yuwentai took Wang Fulian as the county guard. Encouraged by the success of Yang's rebellion, the Western Wei sent a large number of lobbyists to the Eastern Wei occupation area to persuade them to surrender, and the castles attached to them for a while were endless.
Eastern Wei Dynasty Eastern Yongzhou Assassin Shi Sima Gong abandoned the city and fled, and Yuwentai temporarily acted as the agent of Zhengping County with Yang Yan. The shape shì is a great good, but in the same way, the great shape shì also stimulates the upper echelons of the Eastern Wei Dynasty.
Hongnong had sufficient food, and Yuwentai took 10,000 people to stay for more than 50 days. The news of Hongnong reached Jinyang, Gao Huan quit, you will come to rob if you are hungry, is there any heavenly reason? Of course, Tianli speaks by strength, so Gao Huan didn't mention something useless such as protests, the population of the Eastern Wei Dynasty was large and the foundation was thick, so Gao Huan quickly recovered his vitality, he wanted to avenge Dou Tai, he wanted to teach Yuwentai a lesson, and more importantly, he wanted to dominate the country. The clouds of war are once again looming over the land of Guanzhong, which has been completely decorated by the great drought. (To be continued......)