At the end of the history of the Southern and Northern Dynasties, the two traitors of the Northern Regime, Gao Huan and Yuwen Tai, were both serving under Erzhu Rong during the Six Towns Uprising. Gao Huan at this time was much stronger than Yuwen Tai, and at this time, Yu Wentai was only a general under He Bayue. He Bayue and Gao Huan were both of the same level, and after Erzhu Rong died, Gao Huan began to rebel against the Erzhu family and had his own power. After Gao Huan provoked dissension and asked Hou Mochen Yue to kill He Bayue, Yuwen Tai took over the initially formed Guan Long clique with thunderous means.
After Gao Huan became emperor after Emperor Xiaowu became emperor, the government was controlled by Gao Huan, and Yuwen Tai was still struggling to develop the barren Kansai region. Within two years, Emperor Xiaowu was dissatisfied with Gao Huan's dictatorship and was seduced by the traitorous minister Hu Sichun and prepared to flee to Guan Long to join Yuwen Tai. After Emperor Xiaowu ran to Yuwen Tai's territory, Gao Huan said that Yuan Xiu had abandoned the state and fled, abolished the throne, and established Yuan Shan as emperor. The Northern Wei Dynasty was divided into the Eastern and Western Wei Dynasties.
Yuan Xiu, who had turned to Yuwen Tai, would never have thought that Yu Wentai was more ruthless than Gao Huan, Yu Wentai knew that Yuan Xiu was not a puppet emperor who was simply at the mercy of others, and once he grew up, the Guanlong area he had painstakingly managed was not to help him do nothing, so he found an excuse, saying that Yuan Xiu and his cousin Yuan Mingyue had committed adultery, so he directly executed Yuan Xiu and established Yuan Baoju as emperor.
After the establishment of the Eastern and Western Wei Dynasties, large and small wars continued, behind which was actually the game of Gao Huan and Yuwen Tai, in 537 AD, the first major war broke out between the two sides, the Battle of Xiaoguan, also known as the Battle of Tongguan, when a natural disaster broke out in the Guanzhong region, Gao Huan took the opportunity to use troops against Yuwen Tai, Gao Huan took the opportunity to use troops against Yuwen Tai, Gao Huan took the Daxingtai Shangshu Sima Ziru as the marshal, and commanded the governor Dou Tai and qinzhou to assassinate Han Rail and others to attack Tongguan. The first battle was unfavorable, and he was repulsed by the Western Wei king.
Gao Huan then attacked Yuwen Tai with a three-way army, Gao Ao Cao led a large army to attack Luo, Dou Tai led a road army to attack Tongguan, Gao Huan himself led a large army stationed at Pusaka, Yuwen Tai analyzed the advantages and disadvantages of Gao Huan's division of troops, and decided to break the large army led by Dou Tai first, as long as Dou Tai was defeated, Gao Huan would retreat without a fight. Dou Tai has won many battles and has become a proud soldier, Yuwen Tai attacked Dou Tai at Xiaoguan, dou Tai had no hope of breaking through, and chose to commit suicide. The soldiers were taken prisoner by tens of thousands, and Gao Huan saw that Dou Tai was defeated, and there was no time to rescue him, so he ordered a retreat.
In the First Great War, Gao Huan ended in defeat and lost the general Dou Tai, and due to the famine in the Guanzhong region, Yuwen Tai had to take people to The Eastern Wei territory to grab grain and occupy Hengnong. Also in the same year of the Battle of Xiaoguan, Gao Huan reorganized his men and horses and led an army of 200,000 to prepare to destroy Yuwen Tai. The Great Famine in Guanzhong in western Wei had lasted for more than a year, and about seventy-eight out of ten people died from the famine. Faced with the pressure of Gao Huan's large army, several cities in Western Wei chose to surrender to Gao Huan.
After Yuwen Tai learned that Gao Huan led a large army to attack, he immediately returned from Hengnong to prepare to meet Gao Huan, at this time Yuwen Tai only had more than 10,000 people, while Gao Huan had more than 200,000 troops, in order not to repeat the defeat of the Battle of Xiaoguan, Gao Huan decided not to divide the troops. When Gao Huan learned that Yuwen Tai was ambushed in the Weiqu reeds, he thought of attacking with fire, and then two pig teammates jumped out, Hou Jing and Peng Le.
Hou Jing believed that Yuwen Tai should be captured to declare the people, if he was burned into coke, who would believe that we really won a big victory? At this time, Mangfu Peng Le also asked for orders to go to war, and the hasty attack of the Eastern Wei army was ambushed by Yuwen Tai, and this battle gao huan was greatly defeated, and after this battle, Gao Huan lost 80,000 armored soldiers and discarded 180,000 armor. Angry Gao Huan jumped straight to his feet, Peng Le also showed his fierce side in this big battle, his intestines were all stabbed out, and he continued to fight with the Western Wei army. This battle also fattened Yuwen Tai.
After these two battles, Western Wei breathed a big sigh of relief, the next year, that is, in 538 AD, Yuwen Tai took the Western Wei Emperor Yuan Bao torch back to Luoyang to pay homage to the Wei Dynasty Emperor Mausoleum Temple, Gao Huan ordered the generals Hou Jing and Gao Ao Cao to besiege Luoyang Jin YongCheng, the Third Great War of Heqiao broke out, Yuwen Tai was first defeated by Hou Jing, and then the Western Wei army came to the aid, Hou Jing was defeated and fled, the general Gao Gao was killed by Eastern Wei's own people, Gao Huan learned of Gao's death, and gao Huan immediately led the army to resist and killed Yuwen Tai. After this battle, Gao Huan regained the territory lost in last year's war, although it was a victory, but it lost the fierce general Gao.
In 543, the fourth great war broke out between the two sides, and gao's brother Gao Zhongmi surrendered to Yuwen tai of Western Wei and caused a war, which almost became a battle between the military leaders Gao Huan and Yuwen Tai of the two Wei dynasties, Gao Huan was pursued and killed by He Basheng on the Eastern Wei side, and Yuwen Tai was chased and killed by Peng Le on the Western Wei side, all of which were only a little bit off. Gao Huan counted me as a crushing victory in this battle, and after gao Huan returned home, He Basheng almost killed himself, so he killed all of He Bayue's sons who remained in Eastern Wei, and when He Basheng heard the news, he died alive.
Three years later, in 546 AD, the fifth great war broke out between the two sides, the Battle of Yubi, which also became a death war for Gao Huan, who was already in his fifties, and led an army of 100,000 to besiege Yubi, an important stronghold of Western Wei in the lower reaches of the Fenhe River. Yubi Shou would be the Western Wei general Wei Xiaokuan. Gao Huan chose to send troops in October, the northern region was cold and frozen, Eastern Wei attacked Yubi for more than fifty days, more than 70,000 people died in battle, Gao Huan saw that he could not attack for a long time, and lost so many soldiers and horses, he fell ill, so he chose to retire, and gao Huan fell ill the next year.
After the separation of the two Wei families from the east and the west, five major battles were fought, Yuwen Tai won three battles, Gao Huan won two fierce victories, and Yu Wentai won more wars with less, on the one hand, he withstood the internal pressure of Western Wei (the Great Famine in Guanzhong), on the other hand, he kept a sober mind to face Gao Huan, in general, in comparison, militarily Yuwen Tai still had to win over Gao Huan (Xiao Bian's own idea).