Chapter 3 The decisive battle between the Eastern and Western Wei

Yuwentai used the Xianbei old rule of law army, but used Han Confucianism to engage in politics, showing his superb political wisdom. In 535, he promoted Su Sui to the rank of Daxing Taizuocheng, participated in secrecy, drew up an outline for governing the country, and resolved to reform politics.

One. Politically, we should promote the principle of rule by virtue and education, supplemented by the rule of law.

Yuwentai demanded that officials at all levels in the Western Wei Dynasty should use Confucian doctrine to cultivate themselves, practice benevolence, filial piety, loyalty, courtesy, honesty, and frugality, and abide by these Confucian moral norms. At the same time, the common people were instilled with the ideas of filial piety, benevolence, and courtesy, and the common people were educated with the Confucian concept of ethics to stabilize the ruling order.

In the selection of officials, Yu Wentai pursues the principle of meritocracy, ability and political integrity, even if he is from a poor background, he can also be a marquis and worship the prime minister. This broke the traditional system of selecting people from the gate of the scholar clan. At the same time, a large number of Han scholars entered the Western Wei regime, providing spiritual power and intellectual support for the development of the Western Wei Dynasty.

As a leader from an ethnic minority, Yuwentai also has a commendable courage to admonish.

In 539, he ordered that a pen and paper be placed outside the Yangwu Gate in the capital, so that the people could put forward suggestions for governing the country at any time and accept criticism from the masses. This is probably the earliest official suggestion box in China.

Two. In terms of the rule of law, it advocates neither harshness nor violence, and officials who violate the law are treated equally.

When Yuwentai's brother-in-law Wang Shichao served as the assassin of Qinzhou, he was a victim of one party and was decisively killed by Yuwentai.

Yuwentai asked officials to have the idea of "prudent punishment" when adjudicating cases, and to minimize unjust, false and wrongly decided cases. In 552, Yuwentai also did something of great significance in the history of the ancient Chinese legal system. He abolished a cruel punishment that had been handed down for more than 2,000 years.

Castration. The palace punishment, which the world can't help but cry out, is a product of China's slave society, and is combined with ink, nose, fibula, and Dabi to form the "five punishments of slavery". The "five punishments of feudalism" have become five kinds of flogging, rods, imprisonment, exile, and death, but the extremely cruel and inhumane torture of palace punishment is not only harmful but also insulting, so it is deeply loved by some rulers who are psychologically dark and perverted, and it has been implemented intermittently after China entered the feudal society, until Yuwentai explicitly ordered the abolition of the ban.

Three. Economically, Yuwentai first restored the equalization system established in the Northern Wei Dynasty and later destroyed, so that the peasants who had lost their land due to land annexation, war, and natural disasters regained land.

Guanzhong is fertile for thousands of miles and has unique geographical conditions. Yuwentai paid attention to giving full play to its advantages and adapting measures to local conditions, and according to the traditional concept of Confucianism, he actively persuaded farmers to teach mulberry, rewarded cultivation, and rationally formulated a tax system, so that agricultural production in the Guanzhong area developed rapidly.

Four. Culturally, although Yuwentai carried out the Huhua movement in the Western Wei Dynasty, he himself was more elegant and good at Confucianism. He used Confucianism as an ideological weapon to get rid of some backward customs of the Xianbei people, and to abandon the decadent habits of empty talk and metaphysics and worship of Buddhism and Taoism that were all the rage in the ideological field at that time.

At the same time, Yuwentai increased investment in education, set up Guozixue in the capital city of Chang'an, and worshiped the Han Confucian master Lu Dan as the Guozi sacrificial wine (president of Central University), and promoted school education.

After Yuwentai's military, political, economic, and cultural reforms, the Western Wei Dynasty officials ruled the Qingming Dynasty, the people were safe and secure, and the geographical advantages of Guanzhong developed rapidly, and it was completely able to compete with the Eastern Wei Dynasty.

The decisive battle between the two sides also came soon.

Section 1 A big war caused by a peachy incident

One of the decisive battles, the Battle of Bishan, was a very special fuse -- Gao Shen, the elder brother of Gao Aocao and the younger brother of Gao Gan, an important minister of the Eastern Wei Dynasty, surrendered to the Western Wei Dynasty.

The Gao brothers are the fierce generals that Gao Huan relies on very much, and they have always been very important in the Eastern Wei Dynasty, why did Gao Shen suddenly jump ship to Yuwentai in the Western Wei Dynasty?

The cause is Gao Huan's son Gao Cheng. But the Eastern and Western Wei have different accounts of this.

The Eastern Wei side said that Gao Cheng was very lustful, and he actually took a fancy to Gao Shen's wife Li and wanted to rape him, but Li ran away and cried to Gao Shen. It just so happened that Gao Shen was about to be released as the assassin of Northern Yuzhou, and when he heard his wife's crying, how could a man tolerate this kind of thing? Therefore, as soon as he took office, he surrendered to the Western Wei Dynasty.

The Western Wei side said that Gao Cheng was ordered by his father to rectify the rule of officials, and found that Gao Shen was corrupt and perverted the law, so he was demoted to the assassin of Northern Yuzhou. Gao Shen held a grudge and embarked on the road of rebellion.

Which claim is more credible?

Gao Cheng's lust is well known to the world. Gao Huan has a concubine named Zheng Dache, whose name is very rough, but she is beautiful and beautiful, Gao Huan likes it, and the 14-year-old Gao Cheng's hormones have just begun to secrete, and he also likes it.

As a result, Gao Huan was inseparable from Yuwentai's guidance on the front line, and Gao Cheng and Zheng Dache also fought together in the rear. After a mouthy maid told Gao Huan about this, the angry old Gao almost pulled out the root of Xiao Gao Gang's life. Fortunately, Sima Ziru was able to reconcile with the mud for a while, and Gao Cheng was able to keep his life and the position of the son.

Gao Aocao has four brothers, all of whom are cattle. Three were deputy state-level cadres in the Eastern Wei Dynasty, and one was a provincial and ministerial-level cadre. Gao Aocao is the third, the eldest Gao Gan, the opening of the palace with the three divisions, the servant, and the commonplace. The old four high season style, Jizhou Thorn History, Kaifu Yi and the three divisions.

Gao Shen, whose name is Zhongmi, is the second eldest of the Gao family and the lieutenant of Yushi. Gao Lao Er has a little daughter-in-law named Li Changyi, who is not only beautiful, but also proficient in riding and archery, both civil and military. The second child, who is over forty years old, is so obsessed that he doesn't want it, and he doesn't hesitate to spend a lot of money to marry him.

It was normal for a successful man in ancient times to have three wives and four concubines, but Gao Lao Er was a little unkind in this matter, he married a little daughter-in-law, and let the bad wife go to court.

Although the bastard thing of letting the wretched wife go to court is not as bad as the blatant rape of women by Gao Gan and Gao Gao's arrogant Cao brothers, the impact on Gao Shen's political future is huge. Because, his original wife Cui Shi is not an ordinary girl.

Cui's elder brother is called Cui Xian, and Yang Su, Sima Ziru and others are all Gao Huan's ministers. Especially Cui Xian, not only Gao Huan's henchman, but also the old iron of the son Gao Cheng, to what extent? Gao Cheng later married his daughter, Princess Le'an, to Cui Xian's son.

With such a heavy minister, how can he swallow the evil anger of his sister being abandoned for no reason? A complaint was filed with Gao Cheng. Gao Cheng agreed, cleaned up Gao Shen, and vented his anger for his buddies.

The first step is to be disgusted with caution. Gao Cheng personally presided over the wedding, remarried the abandoned Cui family, and remarried in the scenery.

In the second step, Gao Shen served as a lieutenant of the imperial history and had the power to recommend officials. But later it was discovered that all the officials he recommended were completely rejected when they went to Gao Cheng.

If the ex-wife remarries, remarry, Gao Shen didn't feel much lost, after all, he had a little daughter-in-law in his arms, but the fact that his power to recommend officials was deprived in disguise still made Gao Shen a little unhappy.

Something even more unpleasant followed.

Gao Cheng found that he was not so disgusting that he was cautious, how could he give up? Let's go straight to it. He ran directly to Gao Shen's house, forcibly molested Gao Shen's daughter-in-law Li Changyi, and tore all his clothes and pants (clothes are torn - "Zizhi Tongjian").

After being so humiliated by Gao Cheng, Gao Shen's reaction was to be passive and slacking off.

If you have resentment and slack off under the nose of your boss Gao Huan, is it low emotional intelligence?

The four brothers of the Gao family, Gao Gan and Gao Aocao are choleric reckless, but Gao Shen is a bloody black belly. Behind his passive sabotage lies a terrifying motive that is enough to destroy the entire Eastern Wei Empire.

Gao Huan sensed Gao Shen's passivity, and in a fit of anger, he drove him out of the capital and sent him to Northern Yuzhou to serve as the assassin.

It was this moment that Gao Shen was waiting for. North Yuzhou, named after the state border in the north of ancient Yuzhou, is located in Bishui Town, Xingyang City, Henan Province, and has been an important military town since ancient times, because there is an extremely important pass here.

Tiger Prison Pass. Tiger Prison Pass is also called Bishui Pass, Chenggao Pass, Songyue in the south, the Yellow River in the north, the mountains are staggered, it is the eastern gateway of Luoyang, because King Mu of Zhou is named after the tiger in this prison. Dong Zhuo's army and the princes of the Three Kingdoms fought here, and the historical romance of the Three Heroes and Lu Bu was achieved. Liu Bang and Xiang Yu, Li Shimin and Dou Jiande also fought here. After the Li family established Li Tang Jiangshan, in order to avoid Li Yuan's grandfather Li Hu, the name of this pass was changed to Wujiao Pass.

is such an important military town, but Gao Huan regards it as a place for courtiers who don't like it. After Gao Shen arrived, Gao Huan relieved himself, and he was a little afraid, and an urgent order was sent to the tiger prison - Gao Shen, you, the assassin of Northern Yuzhou, are only in charge of civil affairs, and Xi Shouxing is responsible for the military.

An order that there are no three hundred taels of silver here.

It is conceivable that this urgent order not only did not serve the purpose of decentralization, but accelerated Gao Shen's rebellion. In 543, he surrendered directly to Yuwentai of the Western Wei Dynasty, and his name was the Tiger Prison Pass.

This should be the truth of Gao Shen's defection to the Western Wei Dynasty.

Whatever the reason, it was Gao Shen who surrendered to the Western Wei Dynasty anyway and presented the strategic CBD Tiger Pass of the Eastern Wei Dynasty to Yuwentai, which also triggered a decisive battle between the Eastern and Western Wei Dynasty - the Battle of Bishan.

In 543, Yuwentai, who was happy to mention the gift package of the Tiger Prison, personally led a large army to meet Gao Shen, and when he arrived in Luoyang, he surrounded the southern city of Heqiao.

The river bridge is located in the northeast of Luoyang City, built by Du Pre during the Western Jin Dynasty, and is the only bridge on the Yellow River at that time. The scale of the river bridge is large, there is a bridgehead on each bank of the river, and a fortress is also set up on the sand in the middle, called "the three cities of the river bridge".

At this time, the advance of the Western Wei army had already entered the tiger prison. Yuwentai personally led his army to besiege the southern city of Heqiao, which was still under the control of the Eastern Wei Dynasty, in an attempt to prevent Gao Huan from crossing the river.

On the 2nd day of March 543, when Yuwentai had not yet captured the southern city of Heqiao, Gao Huan had already led an army of 100,000 troops to the Yellow River.

The entire river bridge was still under the control of the Eastern Wei, and the Eastern Wei reinforcements came again, and Yuwentai saw that things were not going well and withdrew his troops to the west. It took a lot of effort to take the river bridge, and when the army was withdrawn, Yu Wentai was puzzled and gave an order.

Sent people to release a number of small boats in the upper reaches of the Yellow River, which were stuffed with firewood and straw, and after they were lit, they were fireboats. The fireboat goes down the river and burns down the bridge when it hits it.

You attack with a ship, and I defend with a ship. Hu Lujin, the general of the Eastern Wei Dynasty, sent people to line up in a long line with more than 100 small boats near the river bridge, and a long chain was pulled on the boat, and an "iron cable crossed the river".

Seeing that the fire attack was ineffective, Yuwentai retreated westward to the vicinity of Xiaoshui (a tributary of Luoshui, northwest of Luoyang), and held the main road south to Luoyang, bypassing Bishan, in order to prevent the Eastern Wei army from moving further south.

Located north of Luoyang and south of the Yellow River, Bishan is the mausoleum of the emperors of the Han and Jin dynasties.

Gao Huan's army was stationed in a narrow strip of land between Bishan and the Yellow River, and the location was rather awkward. To the east, the rear was easy to be attacked, and to the west, the passage was again blocked by the Western Wei army.

In this regard, Gao Huan's countermeasures are: face the west, rely on the mountain as a formation, stick to the position without rushing, and wait for Yuwentai.

The vanguard and main forces of the Western Wei in the Tiger Prison were separated, and the longer the time dragged on, the more unfavorable it was for the Western Wei army. After more than ten days of stalemate between the two armies, Yu Wentai, a lover of raid warfare, decided to raid Gao Huan at night.

On the night of March 17, 543, it was warm and cold, the moon was dark and the wind was high, and the breeze was filled with the smell of newborn grass. Yu Wentai ordered the soldiers to feed the war horses, eat and drink enough, give up their baggage, go into battle lightly, and rush towards Gao Huan's army under the thick cover of night.

In ancient times, when the two armies were not far apart, they often had to send scattered scouts to observe and monitor the vicinity of the other army's camp. Gao Huan is of course no exception.

As soon as the Western Wei army moved, the scouts of the Eastern Wei Dynasty discovered it, quickly stepped up, and returned to the base camp in time before the early morning of March 18, and reported the movements of the Yuwentai army to Gao Huan.

After listening to the report, Gao Huan smiled: Yuwentai's march this night must have rushed east after eating dry food, he didn't drink any water, he died of thirst, do you still need me to kill?

Xiaoxiong's thinking is different from ordinary people, people who go out from afar will not bring water bags and water bottles? However, laughing does not mean relaxing, Gao Huan still arranged in time and waited for Yuwentai.

When the sky was bright, the earth was hazy, and the deep and pale sky was still vaguely scattered with a few residual stars.

Yuwentai wanted to carry out a surprise attack, but he didn't expect Gao Huan to be prepared, and he was waiting for work. When the two armies intersected, a fierce general rushed out of the Eastern Wei army, led a team of thousands of elite cavalry, and went straight to Yuwentai's northern army.

This will be called Peng Le.

Although Peng Le is brave, he is a defective general, who can be called Peng Fengxian of the Eastern Wei Dynasty and Peng Changzhang of the Northern and Southern Dynasties, and his defection resume is extremely rich. He first followed Du Luo Zhou, a native of Rouxuan Town, to raise troops against the Northern Wei Dynasty, and then defected to Er Zhurong. Later, he defected to Han Lou, the former general of Ge Rong's department, and when Er Zhurong sent the metropolitan governor Hou Shen to fight against Han, he surrendered to Hou Shen again.

After repeatedly changing jobs, and later, Peng Le returned to Gao Huan and made many military exploits for Gao Huan. During the battle of East and West Weishayuan, Peng Le was severely injured, his intestines were poked out, and he almost died.

At this time, Peng Le's elite cavalry rushed straight into the camp of the Northern Army of the Western Wei Dynasty, because he had too many bad records of defection in the past, so someone hurriedly reported to Gao Huan: Peng Le defected to Yuwentai again!

Gao Huan's heart was cold, and he was just about to send someone to pursue. Soon, seeing the dust in the northwest direction, a flying horse took the lead in running to Gao Huan's horse to report: Da Da Da Wang, General Peng Le has a great harvest and returns with a full load! Tete ordered me to report first!

What's the catch?

It turned out that Gao Huan was arrayed by Bishan, and the Yuwentai army turned south to the foot of Bishan, and the two wings of Gao Huan's army were defended by mobile cavalry. Peng Le led thousands of cavalry on the right flank to attack the left side of Yuwentai's army from the northeast. The Yuwentai army was frustrated by the tight defense of Gao Huan's army in the front, and the flank and rear were violently attacked by Peng Le's elite cavalry, so the left flank collapsed. Peng Le took advantage of the situation and led his troops to insert into the Chinese army camp tent in the rear of Yuwentai's army.

At this time, the generals of Yuwentai and Western Wei were on the front line, who were the people in the Chinese army camp in the rear?

A bunch of wine bags and rice bags.

This group of wine bags and rice bags is a group of Western Wei royal clans. These people have almost zero combat capability, but their ability to cause chaos in the rear cannot be underestimated. Yu Wentai was worried that he was leading his army outside, and these people took the opportunity to make trouble in the rear, so he took them with him so that they could be monitored.

When Peng Le's elite cavalry rushed into the Western Wei camp at a gallop, these masters obediently became prisoners. On the list of prisoners, there are 48 people, including Wang Yuandong of Lintao, Wang Yuanrongzong of Shujun, Wang Yuansheng of Jiangxia, Wang Yuanxian of Xijulu, and Wang Yuanliang of Qiaojun.

The Western Wei Dynasty suffered heavy losses as a result? Think too much. Peng Le's move inadvertently cleared the way for the Yuwen family to usurp Wei Jianzhou in the future, which can be regarded as invisibly doing Yuwentai a great favor and offering a divine assist.

The effect of this great busyness will be revealed, and it will be a matter for later. The current situation is that the Yuwentai army failed to sneak attack, and was blocked by the Gao Huan army who was waiting for work, and was already at a disadvantage, and seeing so many big men in the rear captured, the army was in turmoil and began to disperse.

Gao Huan took the opportunity to order the drums to attack on all fronts, and the Eastern Wei army scrambled to take the lead, and the Yuwentai army was defeated and was beheaded more than 30,000 levels.

Peng Le made persistent efforts, specifically stared at Yuwentai, and pursued fiercely. Being remembered is sometimes happy, sometimes painful, depending on who is thinking about it. Yuwentai was remembered by Peng Le, and he was in great pain, embarrassed, and about to be captured.

In times of crisis, the heroes always have a way to solve problems. When the two horses were not far apart, Yuwentai turned around and shouted to Peng Le, who immediately urgently restranded the horse's head and stopped chasing.

What did Yuwentai say? While running, he said something serious on the horse: Peng Le, you are a second goods, you are still chasing hard, haven't you heard of rabbits and dead dogs? You caught me today, will you still be useful to Gao Huan in the future? I lost a big bag of gold, silver and jewelry in the camp tent when I ran, why didn't I take it to achieve financial freedom? If you don't take it, you will be picked up by others.

Defective generals generally don't take righteousness seriously, but they value money very much. Peng Le used a few tenths of a second to instantly savor Yu Wentai's words - hey, it makes sense, I'll go and see if the money has been picked up.

Peng Le gave up Yuwentai and returned to Yuwentai's tent, and sure enough, he found big bags of gold, silver and jewelry.

Get rich!

In fact, Peng Le can't be blamed for having this idea. What are the founding generals of the past dynasties most afraid of? Rabbit dead dog cooked. Due to the fact that there are too many precedents for rabbits and dead dogs and birds hiding their bows, and there are too many to mention, the generals have gradually found their own way to survive - playing and raising Kou.

Peng Le took the money, hid it, and came back to report to Gao Huan: Yuwentai escaped by luck, but my old Peng has scared him out.

Who is Gao Huan? He was also a general under Er Zhurong and others, and his experience, mentality, and rank were not only one level higher, but he could see through Peng Le's heart, liver, spleen, lungs and kidneys at a glance.

"Get on your knees!"

Gao Huan shouted angrily, ordered Peng Le to kneel on the ground, gritted his teeth, stepped forward and grabbed his head and slammed it to the ground, and raised the knife in his hand several times to cut it down, but thinking that this guy would be useful in the future, he finally couldn't help it.

Just like Chiang Kai-shek after the Battle of Meng Lianggu in later generations, he was to Tang Enbo, served with a cane and a slap, and beat the old Tang who was kneeling on the ground, hateful to hateful, and it was not easy to shoot him. One is that Lao Tang is still useful, and the other is that he has followed himself before and after the saddle for so many years, he will be called a student, shoot him, and the Whampoa department will be fluctuating.

Gu Le's face was full of blood, and he begged Gao Huan to give him another 5,000 men and horses, and he made meritorious service to chase Yuwentai back. Gao Huan slapped him with a backhand: Everyone has let go, can you catch it back now?!

After finishing speaking, he sent someone to fetch a lot of things and put them on Peng Le's back.

Finished! Peng Le's heart tightened, closed his eyes and waited for death.

But gradually I feel that the pressure on the back is not a hard or heavy object such as a grinding disc, but it is unusually smooth and silky...... When I opened my eyes--- I saw 3,000 horses of silk, which could be used as currency at that time.

It was Gao who appreciated him. The first ability to become a hero is to be able to control your emotions. People who can't be masters of emotional management should be better off their dreams as soon as possible.

Because Yuwentai's Western Wei has always been, Peng Le has been reused by Gao Huan since then, and the move of "raising Kou" perfectly achieved the effect he wanted, until he was killed by Gao Huan's son Gao Yang for rebellion in 551.

Gao Huan had the upper hand in this battle, but the situation on the battlefield was changing rapidly. A few days later, an accidental incident occurred that instantly reversed the situation between the two armies.

The two armies of Gao Huan and Yuwentai regrouped and confronted each other. A soldier under Gao Huan, maybe it was the mental depression caused by the tension of the war, maybe it was the poor food in Gao Huan's army recently, in short, for some reason, he killed a donkey in the logistics department.

Donkey, until now, is still an important strategic material in Afghanistan, known as the "graveyard of empires". The small Afghan donkey has always been recognized as a fighter among the donkeys in the world because of its advantages of heavy load, resistance to high cold, and strong endurance. The Afghans rode them through rugged mountain roads and treacherous valleys, beating off the British, Soviets, and Americans, giving three of the P5 a real taste of the power of the Donkey Army.

It is said that when the United States started the war in Afghanistan in 2001, in view of the experience of Britain and the Soviet Union being beaten away by the donkey army in Afghanistan, it attached great importance to the "donkey war" for a long time, and specially established a "donkey riding school" in the Sierra Mountains of the Nevada Mountains of the United States, where the terrain is similar to that of Afghanistan. In addition, the National Army's Strategic Delivery Center has been set up in Afghanistan, where at least 200,000 donkeys have been trained by the U.S. military. It is said that these donkeys can understand bilingual command in Afghan and English, and with the addition of donkey language, they can be said to have mastered three languages.

This is true in modern times, where the importance of donkeys to military operations is self-evident. killed the donkey for no reason, and the law enforcement officer in the army angrily rewarded this Qiu Ba with a military stick. This Qiu Ba was angry, ran to Yuwentai, and told Yuwentai Gao Huan the specific location.

A donkey exposed Gao Huan's location, Yuwentai secretly rejoiced in his heart, and decided to capture the king first. He mobilized heavy troops, quietly bypassed the main force of Gao Huan's army, and suddenly attacked the military tent in Gao Huan's headquarters with all his might.

The decapitation operation came too suddenly, and now it was Gao Huan's turn to be embarrassed. He fled in a hurry, and his mount was shot dead. A subordinate dismounted and gave the horse to Gao Huan, and seven or eight personal soldiers desperately protected Lao Gao and fled.

Yu Wentai led the troops in hot pursuit, seeing that the chase was getting closer and closer, Gao Huan's cronies Du Governor Xingqing jumped out: The king leaves quickly, I still have a hundred arrows in my waist, enough to shoot a hundred people, protect the leader and withdraw!

Gao Huan's eyes lit up: If we can all survive, I will definitely crown you as the assassin of Huaizhou. If you die in battle, let your son do it.

Wei Xingqing modestly said: My son is still too young, so let's use my brother to do it.

It seems that the relationship between the two brothers is very good. How can Gao Huan not agree, at this time, it is okay to use your aunt and second aunt as a thorn.

After Wei Xingqing was one person in the palace, he released arrows again and again to cover Gao Huan's escape, and finally the arrows were shot and cut into meat sauce by the pursuers of the Western Wei Dynasty. Wei Xingqing did not die in vain, and then Gao Huan fulfilled his promise and named his brother Huaizhou Assassin, that is, the mayor of Jiaozuo City, Henan Province, a proper department-level cadre.

Gao Huan's runners were sleepy and tired, and some of his followers were left behind, Gao Huan didn't have time to promise to be an assassin, and immediately after being captured, he reported to Yuwentai the direction of Gao Huan's escape.

You'll have to chase me. Yuwentai immediately sent 3,000 light cavalry to chase after him, and the leader was Dadu Du He Baosheng.

After a quarter of an hour's effort, He Pisheng found Gao Huan riding a horse and fleeing in front of him, because he was in a hurry and did not bring a bow and arrow, so he held a long lance in his hand, clamped the horse's belly fiercely, and chased after him with 13 cavalrymen. The two horses were one in front of the other, and He Batsheng struggled forward, stretched out his arms and held the lance to Gao Huan. Gao Huan's eyes were closed, hugging the horse's neck, his face was tightly pressed against the horse's face and he didn't dare to move. Because, the back of his neck has faintly felt the coldness of the touch of the metal lance tip several times.

At the last moment, there was a fierce savior. Gao Huan's wife, Lou Zhaojun's sister's son, Gao Huan's general Duan Shao (one of the later "Three Heroes of the Northern Qi Dynasty") rushed to the horse, took a bow and an arrow, and shot over He Baosheng's mount with an arrow.

Duan Shao shot down several cavalrymen of the Western Wei Dynasty one after another, covering his uncle-in-law Gao Huan to flee away.

He Baosheng got up from the ground, didn't care about the pain in his buttocks, spit out the dirty blood in his mouth, and beat his chest again and again: I didn't bring a bow and arrows today, it's really providential!

If you don't bring a bow and arrows, can't you use a lance as a javelin? Or the technology is not up to par.

After Gao Huan escaped, after all, it was only the Chinese army that was impacted, and the large army was still there, and it was right away

Gather your troops and make a comeback.

Gao Huan's forces were obviously superior, and the situation on the battlefield reversed. Yuwentai was defeated and fled, but fortunately, Zhu Guoda, General Jin, Duhu Xin and others, collected scattered soldiers from the flank to constantly harass Gao Huan's pursuers, and Yuwentai was able to retreat back to the upper reaches of the Wei River in embarrassment.

In the Battle of Bishan, Gao Huan and Yuwentai each made a battlefield Bolt, and in the end Yuwentai ran away. Some scholars analyzed that the Western Wei Dynasty suffered heavy losses in the Battle of Bishan, and if Gao Huan could attack Guanzhong in one go, history would be rewritten.

Actually, this is a historical illusion. After the end of the Battle of Bishan, the Eastern Wei army attacked Huannong (now Lingbao, Henan), which was the granary of the Western Wei Dynasty. The guard general Wang Sizheng saw that the Western Wei army was defeated and fled everywhere, so he had no choice but to open the city gate and staged a real version of the empty city plan, which really bluffed the Eastern Wei army.

Why? After this battle, the Eastern Wei army was also greatly injured, and it had become the end of a strong crossbow, and it was unable to take the opportunity to enter Guanzhong to expand the results.

In the Battle of Bishan, there was another small event that was not noticed by history, which eventually affected the history of the Northern Qi Dynasty, which later replaced the Eastern Wei Dynasty. That is, the capture of the great beauty Li Changyi.

After the Battle of Pishan in the Eastern and Western Wei Dynasty, Gao Shen's wife and sons were all captured by Gao Huan's subordinate Hou Jing and escorted to Yecheng. Among them, it also includes the "red face and troubled water" and the beautiful Li Changyi, who caused this battle.

In view of the great contributions of Gao Gan, Gao Aocao and others to the Eastern Wei Dynasty, Gao Huan spared the lives of Gao Shen's wife and children, and was only assigned as slaves. And Gao Cheng, put on gorgeous clothes, freshened up, went to see Li Changyi, and said provocatively: What about today?

Li Changyi was silent, how could she have any other choice? Gao Cheng unceremoniously accepted him as a concubine, and it seemed that he really had feelings for him, and his original actions were not just as simple as being angry with his buddy Cui Xian.

However, what Gao Cheng didn't expect was that his lustful behavior eventually caused a bloody storm in the Gao family, and this Li Da beauty is really not a mascot. This is a later story.

Section 2 The Battle of Yubi

Shortly after the end of the Battle of Pishan, the Fifth Great War between the Eastern and Western Wei Dynasty began. This time, Gao Huan did not hesitate to gamble on the fortunes of the country, and also wanted to uproot a new city in the Western Wei Dynasty.

Yubi, in the southwest of Jishan Mountain, Shanxi, was an extremely important military town during the Northern and Southern Dynasties, and was the throat of the Eastern Wei and Western Wei to expand their power and march towards each other.

In 538 A.D., Wang Sizheng of the Eastern Road of the Western Wei Dynasty took the Yubi in a dangerous position, wrote to build the city, and moved the town of Yubi from Hengnong (now Lingbao, Henan) in Henan.

Building a city is not a trivial matter, and the huge cost of national strength can be imagined. The relocation of towns is even more significant, involving the relocation of the military-political center. However, the Western Wei authorities quickly and readily approved Wang Sizheng's application.

Why? Let's take a look at the geography of Yubi.

Yubi, six kilometers southwest of today's Jishan County, is located on the northern edge of Emei Plain, the watershed of the lower reaches of the Fen River and the Shushui River. Emei is the so-called "Emei Plateau" in geography, located in the middle of the Yuncheng Basin, with an area of 6,000 square kilometers and a circumference of 300 kilometers, the platform is slightly prismatic, with an altitude of more than 400 meters, the north boundary of the Fen River Valley, the west boundary of the Yellow River Gorge, and the east and south are surrounded by the Lianshui River. The edge of the platform is eroded by flowing water and washed by the river, forming steep loess cliffs and gullies, and most of the cliffs along the river are more than 50 meters, and the whole platform is like a huge loess castle.

In the center of the platform, there are two more than 1,000 meters of Gufeng Mountain and Jiwang Mountain, facing each other from east to west, like the two eyes of the platform. Occupy Emei Plain, the southeast can control the north and south holes of the Shushui River Valley, the northwest can control the east and west holes of the Fenhe River Valley, advance can drive the assault, retreat can defend the danger without worry, in ancient times constituted the southwest Gongwei Chang'an, the northeast Pinghan Jinyang geographical situation.

At the same time, the plateau is located in the warm temperate zone, the climate is mild, the land is fertile, and the grain and hemp are abundant, so the military problem can be easily solved. Therefore, whoever occupies Emei Yuan will have the strategic initiative.

Now, the Western Wei Dynasty has entered Hedong, if you want to gain a foothold and consolidate and develop, you must hold the Emei Plain, which is the reason why Wang Sizheng built the city and moved the town of Yubi.

And Hedong is the key point of the two Wei Dynasty to compete for the Eastern Wei, the "soft belly", Gao Huan has long been on pins and needles for the Western Wei to set foot in Hedong, and now it is naturally more like a bone in the throat to build the jade wall, which is the reason why Gao Huan did not hesitate to gamble on the national fortune to uproot the jade wall.

This time, it was the Eastern Wei Dynasty that took the initiative to attack. In 546, Gao Huan personally led an army of more than 100,000 people from the capital Yecheng to attack Yubi.

At this time, Wang Sizheng had been transferred, and the Western Wei Dynasty took Wei Xiaokuan as the assassin of the state and led the army to defend it. In September of that year, Gao Huan's army surrounded Yubi and lured the Western Wei army into battle. Wei Xiaokuan judged the situation and held on to the city.

In October, the Eastern Wei army attacked the city day and night, and the two sides used the most traditional ancient Chinese methods of attacking and defending the city to stage a battle with the largest scale, the longest time, the most miscellaneous tactics and the most casualties in the history of China's feudal society.

1. Build a building against a hill of earth.

Gao Huan ordered people to build a mountain in the south of Yubi City, wanting to attack the city condescendingly. Wei Xiaokuan ordered the tower to be made of wood, which was higher than the earth mountain built by the Eastern Wei Dynasty outside the city. A mountain is higher than a mountain, ten thousand arrows are fired at once, and the Eastern Wei army that shoots does not dare to climb the earth mountain again, nor can it raise the mountain again.

2. Dig ditches for digging tunnels.

When the siege of Tushan failed, Gao Huan's army changed its tactics and dug more than 10 tunnels outside the northern city to concentrate its forces to attack.

In ancient times, the most effective method of warfare against tunnel warfare was to dig trenches. A few deep ditches were dug down, and the tunnels dug would eventually be dug into the ditch, and the defenders could just squat on the edge of the ditch and wait, and break the enemy like a monkey.

Wei Xiaokuan was no exception, using the traditional trenching method to deal with Gao Huan's tunnel attack, and harvested a lot of heads. At the same time, he also invented the smoke fire method, piled up firewood outside the ditch, prepared the fire, and once Gao Huanjun was found lurking in the tunnel, he stuffed the firewood into the tunnel and burned it.

Wei Xiaokuan's own psychology is also very dark, and he prepared several cowhide blowers to blow the smoke into the tunnel, and the Gao Huanjun in the tunnel was burned by the smoke and fire, and many soldiers were poisoned by carbon monoxide.

Fortunately, chili peppers had not yet been introduced to China at that time, which was more than a thousand years later in the late Ming Dynasty, otherwise, adding some chili noodles to the fire and blowing it with a blower would be sour and refreshing......

3. The curtain collides with the car.

The Eastern Wei troops returned to simple and rude, directly ramming the city wall with a large number of attack vehicles, and once the city wall was knocked down, they immediately attacked and slaughtered the city.

How did Wei Xiaokuan respond? The curtain was made of cloth and opened in its direction, and when the attacking chariot hit it, the cloth was immediately suspended in the air, and the city wall was not damaged. I don't know if the airbag of modern cars was invented by Wei Xiaokuan.

Gao Huanjun tied dry pine branches and hemp stalks to long poles, poured anointing oil and lit them into super-long pole torches, and set them up to burn the tent curtains and Yubi towers.

In the face of this extra-long torch, Wei Xiaokuan ordered to tie the sharp hook knife to the long pole, and when the extra-long torch came over, he used this extra-long hook knife to cut off the torch. The torch battle also failed.

Gao Huan and Wei Xiaokuan, both of whom each exhausted their lifelong invention talents in this battle, can be called Edison and Leonardo da Vinci of the Northern Dynasties, and the Wolong and Phoenix Chicks in the military invention world.

After the fire attack failed, Gao Huan had another plan.

Water. Gao Huan sent troops to cut off the river outside the city, and stationed heavy troops in Fenshuitun to control the water source, and the defenders in the city were like the 74th Division on Meng Lianggu, and they were thirsty and collapsed.

The idea is good. The water was cut off, and the next morning, Gao Huan got up together, covered in snow everywhere. Wei Xiaokuan was leading his soldiers to eat snow balls and nibble on ice cubes at the head of the city.

It turned out that winter was coming, and Gao Huan was like vegetables in a plastic greenhouse, ignoring the season, and spending military strength on a large-scale water conservancy project in vain.

If the water attack doesn't work, there will be another blood attack method that is thicker than the water attack. Gao Huan escorted Wei Xiaokuan's nephew, who had been captured, and persuaded Wei Xiaokuan to surrender.

Nephew? Neither the son nor the old man can do it! Wei Xiaokuan contemptuously refused. In ancient and modern Chinese and foreign history, there have been few successful examples of using family affection as a threat to defeat the enemy. Yang Kan faced his son who was being held hostage, and shot an arrow. Stalin, in the face of his eldest son Dzhugashvili, who was captured by the Germans, even more indifferently announced, "I will not exchange a general for a soldier." It's embarrassing to think about the reason.

After more than 50 days of continuous siege, the Eastern Wei army had lost 70,000 people, exhausted, and still had no hope of breaking through.

Anxious mood and easy to hurt internal organs. Gao Huan was in a hurry, the old illness recurred, fell ill, and lifted the siege of Yubi City in November of that year.

Come and go as you want, how can it be so easy?! Wei Xiaokuan didn't intend to let this group of enemies go so easily, he made people spread a message.

"Gao Huan was hit by an arrow, and his life will be short."

The commander is about to die, the morale of the army will inevitably be weakened, and if the morale of the army is unstable, retreat will become a problem. Wei Xiaokuan is tossing Gao Huan to death.

The battle was defeated, but it can't lie flat and rotten, the military spirit needs to be stable, and the Gao family's ruling needs to be continued, otherwise it will fall into a catastrophe. Gao Huan had a high fever, his cheeks were red, his lips were white and cracked, he sat in the tent with illness, forced his composure, feasted the soldiers, and ordered the general Hu Lujin to make a song to cheer up.

Hu Lujin, a member of the Eile ethnic group, was born in Shuozhou, Shanxi, brave and bold, and once saved Gao Huan from the siege in the battle of the East and West Wei Mountain. He himself is versatile and can sing and dance. As a result, a folk song of the Northern Dynasties with a clear and bold style, an open realm, and a majestic tone was born.

Eilechuan, under the Yin Mountain.

The sky is like a dome, covering the four wildernesses.

The sky is blue, the wilderness is vast, and the feng shui grass is low to see cattle and sheep.

This is the "Song of Ele", which has a strong artistic generalization. Hu Lujin sang in Xianbei language, Gao Huan himself led the singing, and the tears of heroes couldn't help but burst out of his eyes.

The battle of Yubi, although it was attacked by the Eastern Wei and defended by the Western Wei, could be fought hard for 60 days, and the Western Wei killed and wounded as many as 70,000 soldiers, but did not enter the Yubi City for half a step, which can be described as a complete defeat. Where are the souls of the 70,000 soldiers?

Wei Xiaokuan relied on this battle to become famous and was deeply appreciated by Yuwentai. During the Song Dynasty, the Temple of Literature worshiped Confucius, called the Temple of Wenxuan Wang, and the Temple of Literature was accompanied by the seventy-two disciples of Confucius. When the Wu Temple was worshipped, Jiang Taigong Lu Shang was called Wucheng Temple. Corresponding to the Temple of Literature, the official selection of the seventy-two generals who accompanied the sacrifice of the Wu Temple, Wei Xiaokuan was among them.

And Gao Huan, who supported the sick body to withdraw to Jinyang, completely lay down as soon as he arrived home, and he never got up again.

At the beginning of 547, a generation of heroes who had been in the Wei family for many years passed away suddenly in Jinyang with endless regrets at the age of 51. Later, his son Gao Yang abolished Emperor Xiaojing of the Eastern Wei Dynasty, established himself as emperor, and established the Northern Qi Dynasty.

On the side of the Western Wei Dynasty, in March 551, Yuan Bao Ju died and was succeeded by his eldest son Yuan Qin. In 554, Yuan Qin was deposed by Yuwentai, and Yuan Kuo, the fourth son of Yuan Bao Ju, ascended the throne, that is, Emperor Gong of Western Wei.

In 556, Yuwentai fell ill and died, and his nephew Yuwenhu inherited the power. In 557, Yuwen forced Emperor Gong of the Western Wei Dynasty to let Chan, and the Western Wei Dynasty perished. Yuwentai's son Yuwenjue was the king of the Great Zhou Dynasty, established the Northern Zhou Dynasty, and built the capital Chang'an.

At this point, the magnificent history of the Eastern Wei Dynasty and the Western Wei Dynasty came to an end, and Northern China entered the turbulent era of the Northern Qi Dynasty and the Northern Zhou Dynasty.