【Summary】:Sui and Tang Dynasty 020: I took two steps back, how did I still fail miserably?
In the previous lecture, we introduced the mighty old general Wei Chiyi, and finally mentioned that there was a person in the formation who we were familiar with, this person was Wei Chixuan, who had suffered the bitter fruit of the defeat in the First Battle of Qinshui, and he led the remnants of the army to defeat and fled back to Yecheng. At this time, the whole army is ready to go, ready for a snow shame. Along with him, there was his younger brother, Wei Chi Youqi.
In addition to his own side, there were also Wei Chiyi's nephews, the 50,000 horses sent by Wei Chiqin, and the 3,000 people who had already arrived, and took the lead in throwing themselves into the battlefield.
With ease and waiting for work, with fresh blood to join, and the anger that wanted revenge, how to see and how to feel that Wei Xiaokuan was about to face a fierce battle.
Wei Chiyuan, let's take a look
The master passed the move, the complexity was simplified, there was no twist and turn, and Wei Chiyi directly led the soldiers to rush over. The veteran is personally in charge, and the morale is naturally boosted. When Wei Xiaokuan encountered such a desperate force, some of them could not resist and frequently retreated backwards. At this time, if the troops are collected, it will definitely be the biggest damage to morale. After all, they had come from afar, and after so many previous wars, their physical strength was already a great test.
However, the war situation has not turned around, and it seems that the defeat of Wei Xiaokuan's side has become inevitable.
At this time, Gao Haohe, Together with Yuwen Xin, Li Xiang and others, found a breakthrough point. What? The people watching the battle. The great battle in Yecheng was watched by tens of thousands of people. When I saw this paragraph, my brain buzzed a little. What？ Watch? Is this to see the bullfight? But the history books really say this: "There were tens of thousands of female spectators in Shiye City. "These people should be the people of Yecheng, as to why they can watch the battle, we don't know." So where are they watching? I guess it was out of town, not far away.
Speaking of which, you should have guessed that the breakthrough is them.
Gao Hao asked Yuwen Xin and others to lead a part of the people to attack those who were watching the battle. It is indeed immoral to do so, but the battlefield is urgent, and it is not moral and immoral to take into account. When the people saw that some troops had rushed towards them, and the arrows were still coming, they were stupid in an instant. What happened to us? So what to do? Run.
These people were ordinary people, had no military training at all, and were all scattered. If you think about it, tens of thousands of people were running around, and how chaotic it was. So where are these people fleeing? Yecheng. That's right, they have to go home. This direction is interesting, directly colliding with Wei Chiyi's troops. Tens of thousands of people rushed into the formation, and Wei Chiyi's position was instantly swept to pieces.
Yuwen Xin saw that the strategy had worked, and directly shouted, "They lost!" With the soldiers, he rushed back again. Wei Chiyi had fought all his life, and at the end of the day, he did not expect that he would lose so inexplicably. There was no way but to lead the remnants of the soldiers to retreat to the city.
At this time, it is impossible to save the defeat. Liang Shiyan took the lead in attacking Yecheng from the north gate and released Yuwen Xin into the city. At this time, Wei Chiyi directly retreated to the small city tower. As he was running up, he suddenly heard someone chasing after him. Listen to the voice, not your own people, but the enemy army. The old general hurriedly opened his bow and arrows, pulled the bow full, and turned around to shoot. But when he saw the coming, he stopped.
Who's coming? It was Choi Hongdu. As we mentioned before, Cui Hongdu is the brother of the wife of Wei Chiyi's son, and the two families also belong to the in-law relationship. Seeing that his relatives had come to hunt him down, Wei Chiyi knew that the general trend was gone, and he lowered his bow and arrow and threw it on the ground. Yang Tian sighed and raised his sword to kill himself.
Cui Hongdu could not bear to cut off the head of Lieutenant Chi Yuan, and gave this credit to his younger brother Cui Hongsheng, and he turned around and went down the castle tower.
The Battle of Yecheng ended with The suicide of Wei Chiyi. Although Wei Chiqin, Wei Chiqin, and Wei Chiyouqi, who followed him, escaped from Yecheng, they did not run far before they were captured by the general Guo Yan, and Wei Chiyi's rebellion was declared over.
Guo Yan was promoted to shangzhu guo (上柱國) and given the title of Duke of Wushan (武山郡公) for his meritorious service in beheading The son and nephew of Lieutenant Chi Yuan. He previously served as the Right Central Army Xiongqu Zhongdafu, a low-ranking official who was established during the Northern Zhou Dynasty. As for why it is called such a strange name, I really did not find any relevant records. Guo Yan, this person, is more brilliant in his ancestors. According to his son's epitaph, his family fell upwards to the ninth generation, which was the Yongzhou Assassin History of the Cao Wei Dynasty and the Marquis Guo Huai of Yangqu. Guo Yan's father, Guo Chong, was a group of people who moved into Chang'an with Emperor Xiaowu of Western Wei, and the position at that time was Sheren, which belonged to the pro-branch of Emperor Xiaowu, but his status was not very high. However, it is also a member of the start-up team of Western Wei, and naturally it will not be treated badly. Guo Yan's story, we will mention it later, let's not talk about it now.
Although Wei Chiyi was wiped out, the liquidation was not over. The city of Yecheng, where he occupied, was once a famous city in history. Tracing back to history, the first thing that made this city start was the Wei people Ximen Leopard in the Warring States period. The story of Ximen Leopard Zhiye, we have learned in textbooks. After his governance, this small city that stood on the north bank of the Zhanghe River prospered.
The ruins of Yecheng City, true or false, are to be determined
At the time of the Two Han Dynasties, Yecheng was once the political, economic and cultural center of the Heshuo region. Until the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Yicheng once again ushered in vitality, and this time the ruler was the famous Weiwu Emperor Cao Cao. In May of the eighteenth year of Jian'an, Emperor Xian of Han made Cao Cao the Duke of Wei and established the State of Wei, the capital of Yecheng. This City of Ye, mainly the City of Northern Yi, was gradually rejuvenated by Cao Cao and gradually moved towards glory.
After the division of the Northern Wei Dynasty, Gao Huan, the ruler of the Eastern Wei Dynasty, moved the capital from Luoyang to Yecheng and established the city of Yinan, and since then, there has been a situation in history in which the two cities of the north and the south coexist. At that time, Yicheng, both the size of the city and the size of the population, surpassed Chang'an and became a metropolis comparable to Luoyang in northern China. The layout of this city had a profound impact on the construction of Chang'an during the later Sui Dynasty, and even on the early construction of the city in Japan.
This city, stay or not stay? People in the city, stay or not?
This is like the book of life and death on the table of Yama King, with a big stroke of the pen, deciding life and death.
Yang Jian's choice is not to stay. Therefore, the Yecheng Massacre began after the defeat of Wei Chi's army. In the main history, this part is written more obscurely. It's just that the pit killed tens of thousands of people. But according to the records of the Tang Dynasty monk Daoxuan, there are far more than tens of thousands of people. Monk Daoxuan revealed the details of the massacre in the book "Ji Shenzhou Three Treasures Tonglu Scroll".
At that time, the prisoners, even the sergeants and civilians, almost a million people, locked them up in the place of Youyu Garden. How big this garden is, we don't know. But a million people locked up inside, too, is particularly crowded. Then tell them that they will be executed the next morning. At this time, the only thing that could be thought of in the minds of these captives was to run. But the wall of the garden is relatively high, and it can't go up at all, what to do? The walls are not airtight on all sides, there are holes in the walls. It is estimated that one person can pass through at a time, so these people will find a way to escape from the hole.
Then you will say, Wei Xiaokuan's troops, will they let them go? It really will. The man who escaped from the hole let him run. But if you don't escape, you can only meet the butcher knife.
So how many people are running out? According to the monastic records, there were almost 400,000 people. In other words, there are still about 600,000 people in the garden who have not run out. Immediately after, there was a bloody scene: "There are 600,000 people, and they are beheaded on the banks of the Zhanghe River, and the corpses are in the water, and the water does not flow, and the blood river is january." "The bodies of six hundred thousand people blocked the Zhanghe River.
The numbers may be exaggerated, but the extent of the massacre is still evident.
But a year after the end of this massacre, Yang Jian did one thing, which can be said to be unprecedented.