Gao Wei has never been able to understand what 'if you don't die, you won't die', but his own behavior has vividly interpreted what 'will die to the end' is all about, even the losers of later dynasties are also impressed by it.

The impact of Gao Wei's escape this time was so great that the consequences were indescribable, and it directly led to the rapid demise of the Northern Qi Dynasty.

When Gao Wei fled, the tens of thousands of Northern Qi troops in the front-line battlefield were still fighting with the Northern Zhou army, and at this time, the 80,000 troops of the Qi army were also divided into 20,000 people to blockade the Northern Zhou defenders in Pingyang City.

It can be said that the Qi army on the battlefield is an inferior force and the Northern Zhou army is evenly matched, and the 10,000 heavy infantry has given the Zhou army a strong pressure.

However, Yu Wenyong calculated Gao Wei's timid and vain character, and knew that Gao Wei would inevitably lead a large army here, and he would flee because he was afraid of the changing situation on the battlefield, as long as he oppressed the Northern Qi army back a little, Gao Wei would inevitably panic, and only in this way could the Northern Zhou have a chance to win.

Yu Wenyong didn't guess wrong, Gao Wei really did as he thought, leaving behind the tens of thousands of soldiers who were still fighting desperately for him, and fled.

The soldiers of the Qi army, who were fighting bravely against the Northern Zhou army, were no longer willing to work for this stupid boy after suddenly knowing the news that their emperor Gao Wei had quietly escaped.

At this time, Yu Wenyong commanded the Northern Zhou army to take the opportunity to quickly launch a general attack, so the main army of the Northern Qi Dynasty was quickly defeated, tens of thousands of people were killed, nearly 20,000 people became prisoners of war in the Northern Zhou Dynasty, and the grain, grass, armor, and equipment captured by the Northern Zhou Dynasty were countless.

Yu Wenyong was overjoyed, after all, the transportation of grain and grass materials needed for the war was very troublesome, and with so many materials captured this time, the Northern Zhou army could not stop at all, and with these captured materials, it would be able to maintain its offensive all the time.

When the Northern Zhou and Northern Qi armies fought fiercely under Pingyang City before, Wang Ze didn't care about this battle at all, after all, the two of them have been fighting in the area between Pingyang and Yubi, the two Hedong cities, for decades, so in Wang Ze's heart, this battle is no different from the previous Northern Zhou-Northern Qi tug-of-war.

But unexpectedly, things changed so quickly, after the defeat of the most elite army of the Northern Qi Dynasty under the city of Pingyang, the domestic armies of the Northern Qi Dynasty had no fighting spirit for a while, and the Northern Zhou army swept all the states and counties along the way, and a large number of states and counties took the initiative to surrender.

The Northern Zhou army took advantage of the victory and advanced, linking Gaobi (now southeast of Lingshi, Shanxi) and Jiexiu (now Shanxi), and within a few days quickly approached Jinyang, where the Northern Qi emperor Gao Wei had fled.

After Gao Wei learned of the defeat of the front-line army, not only did he not feel remorse, but complained that those soldiers were not fighting effectively, and then fled all the way to Jinyang with Feng Xiaolian, after he fled to Jinyang, he was worried and afraid and didn't know what to do, but he didn't do anything after all.

Facing the approaching Northern Zhou army, he not only did not hold the big city of Jinyang, but also did not quickly summon the Northern Xinjiang town army from Yanmen County and other places to help, but he was once again ready to abandon the Jinyang army and civilians, and wanted to escape quietly with Feng Xiaolian's beautiful eyebrows.

On the thirteenth day of January in the nineteenth year of the Xia calendar, Gao Wei, who was destined to become the queen of Qi, saw that the Northern Zhou army was about to arrive in Jinyang, so he ordered Gao Yanzong, the king of Ande, to defend the city for the state assassination, but he himself fled from Jinyang, and in a hurry, he wanted to go north to join the Turks.

However, Gao Wei's ministers still understood the matter, after all, the Turks were hungry wolves who were even more greedy than the Northern Zhou, and after some persuasion from these ministers, they reluctantly agreed to flee back to Yecheng to defend them, and if they couldn't do it, they could go to Nan Chen or Wang Yong.

At this time, it was not without the Northern Qi generals from all over the country who asked to send troops to join the state to help the war, for example, the general Dugu Yongye stationed in Luoyang wrote many times, asking to lead the army to Bingzhou to help the war, but these requests were severely reprimanded and stopped by the suspicious Gao Weiyan.

In this way, the last glimmer of hope of the generals of the Northern Qi Dynasty was also completely erased by Gao Wei, and Jinyang City, which could have relied on the high risk of the city to hold on for a few months, or even a year or two, was quickly captured by the Northern Zhou army after only holding on for less than four days.

On January 17, the Northern Zhou army successfully conquered Jinyang, the most important city of the Northern Qi Dynasty, and Gao Yanzong, the king of Ande, was captured, and most of the Northern Qi Wenchen soldiers who remained in the city simply surrendered to the Northern Zhou.

This time he was able to occupy the important town of Jinyang so quickly, even Yu Wenyong himself felt very surprised, but he knew very well that at present, how many people and forces were trying to get a piece of the pie from the fallen giant of Northern Qi, he knew that only by moving faster could he grab the most and best territory.

After conquering Jinyang City, Yuwen Yong kept going, while sending various Zhou armies to seize the important places in Northern Xinjiang and various strategic places in the Northern Qi Dynasty, while he himself led the Northern Zhou army to Yecheng, preparing to destroy the Northern Qi in one fell swoop.

After Gao Wei returned to Yecheng, he continued to play his own tricks to the death! OK

He first ordered to recruit warriors to fight against the Zhou army with heavy rewards, but in the end he did not come up with any money, and Gao Xiaoheng, the king of Guangning, asked him to reward the soldiers with the treasures of the palace maids, and he resolutely refused to agree as if he had cut meat.

In order to boost morale, the minister Hu Lu Xiaoqing asked Gao Wei to personally go to the soldiers guarding the city to comfort these soldiers, and Hu Lu Xiaoqing even wrote a speech for him in person, and hoped that he could cry generously to move people's hearts.

However, the degree of Gao Wei's death is unheard of in the world, when he went out of the palace to inspect the Qi army sergeants, he actually forgot all the speeches in a blink of an eye, and he just forgot it, but he laughed in front of the soldiers, and the fortunate ministers who followed Gao Wei left and right also laughed.

The soldiers of the Qi army who were inspected in the audience were furious one by one when they saw this, and they said to each other: He still doesn't cherish his own country so much, what are we who eat food and work hard for him!

As a result, the only tens of thousands of Qi troops in Yecheng quickly lost their morale, and the soldiers no longer had any intention of fighting for the Gao clan.

After only ten days, Gao Wei, the queen of Qi, saw that the general trend had gone, and in order to avoid losing the name of the emperor of a kingdom, he passed the throne to his eight-year-old son Gao Huan, who became the emperor himself, and actually held the power.

On February 8, the 19th year of the Xia calendar, the Zhou army arrived in Yecheng, at this time, the people in Yecheng were panicked, and the civil and military officials of the Northern Qi in the city surrendered to the Northern Zhou, and there was an endless stream.

Seeing this, Gao Wei, the queen of Qi, knew that Yecheng was difficult to protect, so he quietly led more than 100 horsemen out of the city and fled to Yangping County (Zhijin Guantao) to prepare to take refuge in Wang Yong, after all, this can still save the life of the family.

On February 9, just over a day after Gao Wei left Yecheng, the Zhou army successfully conquered Yecheng in less than a day when he came to Yecheng, and all the princes and officials of Northern Qi who remained in Yecheng surrendered.

In the middle of that month, Gao Wei, the queen of Qi, and his son Gao Heng, who had fled to Yangping County, finally made up their minds to take refuge with the nearest Wang Yong, after all, Wang Yong occupied the land of Sanqi and could be reached not far from crossing the river.

But what Gao Wei didn't understand was that the minister was a minister after all, and he could not share hardships with the rich and noble, and at this time, Gao Anaqiu, who was also the right prime minister of the Northern Qi clan, also began to disagree.

At the beginning, he took the initiative to lead thousands of remnants of the Northern Qi Dynasty, claiming that Gao Wei resisted the Northern Zhou pursuers, but in fact, he himself had secretly contacted the Northern Zhou army, so Gao Wei did not feel fooled at all after being paralyzed, and was soon caught up and captured by the Zhou army.

Although at this time, the Northern Zhou Dynasty only occupied less than half of the territory of the Northern Qi Dynasty, but with the slaughter of all the Northern Qi clans, Gao Wei's father and son were all captured, which symbolized the official demise of the Northern Qi Dynasty, which lasted for 25 years.

However, the Northern Zhou's attack on the Northern Qi was only the beginning of the battle, and it did not mean that the Northern Zhou's Second Eastern Crusade was a complete victory, and they still had many enemies to face.

Previously, the Northern Zhou and Northern Qi fought again and again near Pingyang City, and at that time, Nan Chen, Wang Yong, and the Turks were very clear about this matter, but no one thought that the Northern Zhou, whose strength was comparable to that of Northern Qi, would be able to win a comprehensive victory in the battle of Pingyang City.

What they couldn't imagine was that in less than two months after the victory in Pingyang City, Yuwen Yong completely destroyed the still relatively powerful Northern Qi, all of which stunned all the forces that knew about it.

After learning the news of the demise of the Northern Qi Dynasty, even if they were not fully prepared for war, Wang Yong and Nan Chen still acted quickly in just a few days, after all, now the Northern Zhou had only just broken through Yecheng and its surrounding areas, and had not yet completely occupied the Northern Qi, and they still had the opportunity to seize some states and counties that were relatively close to them.

After all, the number of the Northern Zhou army was too small at this time, and it only captured some limited prefectures and counties around Shanxi and Yecheng in Hebei in later generations, and Luoyang City south of the river was even in the hands of Dugu Yongye, the remnant of the Northern Qi Dynasty, although everyone knew that these armies could not hold out for long, but Nan Chen and Wang Yong did not want to let go of this opportunity.

In the past, with the support of Wang Ze, Wang Yong built an army of up to 200,000 people, and Nan Chen, who was unwilling to fail, finally sent Cheng Lingxi, Wu Mingche, Zhang Zhaoda, Du Ling and others to the Northern Expedition again, and once again prepared to take Pengcheng and the prefectures and counties of the Central Plains.

When Wang Ze learned the news, it was already the beginning of March of the nineteenth year of the Xia calendar, and with this information, of course, it was a letter from Wang Yong asking Wang Ze to help him vigorously, after all, Wang Yong still had many aspects that he was not prepared for, so he could only ask his precious son for it.

Seeing this, Wang Ze couldn't help but sigh secretly, Gao Wei is really Yuwen Yong's lucky star, these most critical battles, if it weren't for Gao Wei's escape that hit the morale of the Qi army hard, I'm afraid that if Northern Zhou wants to defeat Northern Qi so smoothly, it will take at least another half a year, or even a year or two.

"Your Majesty!" Liu Xin, whose demeanor was still undiminished, walked in, and saw Wang Ze holding the letters in a daze, he glanced at these letters to know what was going on, and couldn't help but ask Wang Ze, "Your Majesty, do you think we should interfere in this change in the situation in the Central Plains?" ”