When it comes to the history of the Southern and Northern Dynasties, it is impossible not to mention two people, namely Gao Huan and Yuwen Tai, it can be said that the Entire Northern Dynasty of the Southern and Northern Dynasties period was precisely because of the existence of these two people that such a fierce spark would collide. Gao Huan and Yuwen Tai tore northern Wei into Eastern Wei and Western Wei, and then there was later Northern Qi and Northern Zhou, and then Sui and Tang. The Sui and Tang Dynasties are the political legacy of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, that is, the political legacy of Yuwentai, from this point of view, Yuwentai is stronger than Gao Huan, but if they only compare these two people, then they are really comparable in strength, it is difficult to come up with a very convincing result, quite a bit of "both Born Yu He Shengliang" feeling.
In fact, these two people still have a lot in common, although Gao Huan rose from the poor, and Yuwen Tai from the family, but they did struggle step by step to a high position, both of them also gradually became famous because of the Six Towns Uprising, and slowly developed into Erzhu Rong's subordinates, and finally they both put the emperor out of the air, and both killed the emperor they supported. But neither of them was called emperor, but their son was called emperor. These two people are natural opponents, destined to fight to the death, and they are really fighting to the death.
Speaking of which, although the two men supported their own armies and respected themselves at the end of the Northern Wei Dynasty, the struggle at that time was not fierce until 535, when Gao Huan supported Yuan Shanjian to establish Eastern Wei for emperor, and soon Yuwen Tai also supported Yuan Baoju to establish Western Wei for emperor. Since then, the Eastern and Western Wei Dynasties have begun to fight for many years, and each wants to destroy the other to achieve the unification of the Northern Dynasty, but unfortunately neither of them has done so before.
Gao Huan and Yuwen Tai fought four major battles during this period, namely: the Battle of Eastern and Western Wei Tongguan (Gao Huan's defeat), which began in 535, the Battle of Shayuan (Gao Huan's defeat), which began in 537, the Battle of Heqiao(Yuwen Tai), which began in 538, and the Battle of Mount Yi (Yuwen Tai), which began in 543. The four battles directly against the two won and lost in half, which can also be seen from it that the strength of the two is indeed equal, and it can also be regarded as a chess opponent.
For example, in the Battle of Shayuan, Gao Huan originally planned to ignite the reeds and burn Yuwentai to death, but because he listened to the advice of his subordinate Hou Jing, he must capture Yuwentai alive, and then missed a great opportunity, and the war that was originally won was finally defeated by the other side.
In the Battle of Yaoshan Mountain, Peng Le caught up with Yuwen Tai, who had already raised his sword to cut it down, and Yu Wentai said: "Now without me, ming have you?" Why not rush back to the former revenue Ofe? ”。 Then Peng Le, the person, forced Yu Wentai to let go, and the most ridiculous thing was that after he went back, he said that Yu Wentai had been frightened by the leakage from under his knife, and when Gao Huan continued to ask, Peng Le told Gao Huan the original text of Yu Wentai's words, and Gao Huan was so angry that Gao Huan pressed Peng Le's head to the ground and tried to draw his sword several times to kill Peng Le, but finally let it go.
Another time was in the battle of Heqiao, Yuwen Tai's subordinate He Basheng planned to use the long hammer to stab Gao Huan, he chased Gao Huan for a long time, the long hammer almost stabbed Gao Huan, but the war horse was killed by the arrow, watching Gao Huan leave, He Basheng said: "Today's matter, I do not hold the bow and arrow, Tianya!" ”
In 546, after these four major wars, Gao Huan once again gathered a large army to attack Yubi of Western Wei, in fact, at that time, Gao Huan's strength was already hidden above Yuwen Tai, but in this Battle of Jiangling, Gao Huan did not directly fight Against Yuwen Tai, and his opponent was Shi Wei Xiaokuan. Wei Xiaokuan was Gao Huan's poison, Gao Huan poured all his strength to attack such an isolated city as Yubi, but he could not attack it for a long time, no matter what methods were used, such as fire attack, flooding, digging tunnels, etc., it was impossible to attack, it depended on the siege for almost two months, Yubi still did not move, and Gao Huan's soldiers were already dead, and Gao Huan had to withdraw his troops.
This time, he did not capture Yubi, but let Gao Huan attack his heart in a hurry, and soon he died. Upon Gao Huan's death, his son Gao Cheng (高澄) continued his struggle with Yuwen Tai (宇文泰), who later died and his son and nephew took control of the Western Wei regime. After that, there was a duel between Gao Huan and Yuwen Tai's next generation, and in their duel, there was no doubt that Yu Wentai's descendants won, because Gao Huan's descendants built Northern Qi dynasty Eastern Wei, and Yuwen Tai's descendants built Northern Zhou Dynasty Western Wei. Northern Zhou eventually destroyed Northern Qi.
The biggest difference between Gao Huan and Yuwen Tai is that in this descendant, Northern Qi can be regarded as a beast dynasty during the Southern and Northern Dynasties, all kinds of absurd things may happen in this magical country, and the emperors of Northern Qi have a commonality, that is, short lifespan, even if one or two good emperors appear, they will soon die, not to mention that the emperors of Northern Qi are basically absurd lords.
Northern Zhou was different, Northern Zhou produced a Yuwen Hu and Yuwen Yong, the former was Yuwen Tai's nephew, although in the early Northern Zhou regency, killed several Yuwen Tai's sons, but his ability is really good, and it is precisely because he killed several Yuwen Tai's sons that Yuwen Yong, the fourth son of Yuwen Tai, has the opportunity to become the emperor of Northern Zhou, and after succeeding to the throne, he becomes the male lord of Wenzhi martial arts, which is in stark contrast to the emperor of Northern Qi, so if Gao Huan can't defeat Yuwen Tai, this is true, The reason for this can only be that Yuwen Tai's descendants are stronger than Gao Huan's descendants.
And it is precisely because of Yuwen Yong's reign for several years, the Southern and Northern Dynasties began to move toward unification, or there were conditions for unification, and the later Sui Wen Emperor Yang Jian stole the political fruits of Yuwen Yong, which was also no way, who made Yuwen Yong live short, he died at the age of 35, if you give him another ten years and eight years, there will be no Sui Dynasty, at this point, Yuwen Yong and Later Zhou Shizong Chai Rong are more similar.